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Lush Life: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Price
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  137 reviews
Sales Rank: 869
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 464
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.1 x 1.6
ISBN: 0374299250
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780374299255
ASIN: 0374299250
Publication Date: March 4, 2008
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Amazon Significant Seven, March 2008: No one has a better ear and eye for the American city than Richard Price, and in Lush Life, his first novel in five years, he leaves the fictional environs of Dempsy, New Jersey, where Clockers, Freedomland, and Samaritan were set, for a few crowded blocks of Manhattan's Lower East Side. There's a crime at the heart of the story, but you don't read Price for plot. Instead, you listen as he peels apart layers of class and history through the way his characters talk to each other: hipster bartenders who tell people they're really writers, homeboys from housing projects named after the Jewish immigrants who have long left the neighborhood, and cops, cops, cops, circling the streets looking for a collar, disappearing into their cases as their own lives go to ruin. --Tom Nissley
Product Description
So, what do you do?” Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter . . . But now he’s thirty-five years old and he’s still living on the Lower East Side, still in the restaurant business, still serving the people he wanted to be. What does Eric do? He manages. Not like Ike Marcus. Ike was young, good-looking, people liked him. Ask him what he did, he wouldn’t say tending bar. He was going places—until two street kids stepped up to him and Eric one night and pulled a gun. At least, that’s Eric’s version.
In Lush Life, Richard Price tears the shiny veneer off the “new” New York to show us the hidden cracks, the underground networks of control and violence beneath the glamour. Lush Life is an Xray of the street in the age of no broken windows and “quality of life” squads, from a writer whose “tough, gritty brand of social realism . . . reads like a movie in prose” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).
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 Lush Life is hard to understand June 26, 2008
I guess I live too far from the streets of New York, but I found myself really struggling to understand what half of the dialog meant in this novel. I enjoyed the pace and the different views of the same event, but every time someone spoke I had to guess what they were saying. Made it hard to really enjoy.
Gritty June 26, 2008
Get ready to take a tour of the underbelly of the City in this work. Gritty, shocking, at times touching, this book will keep you hooked until the last page.
Borrow this book... June 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I can count on both hands the number of books I haven't finished in my 50 years on this earth (and believe you me I've read a LOT of books) but this one was just TOO confusing. I thought it was just me until I talked about it to my Mom and she agreed that she felt the same way. And we both LOVE books! I'm VERY glad that I borrowed the book from my local library!
Good Book, worth a read June 19, 2008
Its hard to review this book because its just not really the type of book I would normally read. Its an Amazon "Vine" review after all. But what first intrigued me about this book was my friend kept raving about her favourite show, "The Wire". I've never seen it but she loved it and said it was brilliant.
It was a good book. I liked the gritty mystery of it. I think the best part was the cool New York setting. Although, some parts of it just seemed generic `cop show' material. Some parts of the book seems to drag a bit, like he tried to make it longer than the story required.
One thing that kind of turned me off about it was the back and forth talking. Reading the back, one of the reviews states Price is "the greatest writer of dialogue". It seemed 90% of the book was he said, she said, he said. It got kind of repetitive, but its probably just one of those things that you either like about a book or don't, and I didn't.
 Just a Great Read June 18, 2008
Lush Life is a great read, really enjoyable, compelling reading. I'm surprised to see it referred to as a police procedural--that genre is pretty limited. Calling Lush Life a police procedural is tantamount to calling Pride and Prejudice chick lit. While Lush Life has some elements in a police procedural--there is a dead body and police are involved--Lush Life goes beyond the typical police procedural example. Why is this one so terrific? Outstanding dialogue, complex, flawed characters with complicated motivations, entertaining forays into personal lives, humor and wit. Enjoy!
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