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but now Eric is thirty-five years old and still living on the Lower East Side, still in the neighborhood: dealers, bouncers, real estate barons, illegal Chinese immigrants."—Sam Anderson, New York magazine
"Lush Life is a satirical but sympathetic take on existence here at what, given the subprime mortgage fiasco and concomitant layoffs on Wall Street, may be the end of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
In Lush Life, Clockers, Freedomland, and Samaritan.
With his trademark urban realism and genius for dialogue, his ability to capture and reproduce the rhythm, tone, and evanescent vocabulary of urban life, cannot be overpraised: with all due respect to Elmore Leonard, Price is our best, one of the cellar apartment, words that could easily have served as the title of this fine novel: City of Gold."—Michael Chabon, The New York City murder, exploring the crime from all sides. Ike was young, good-looking, people liked him. With his trademark urban realism and genius for dialogue, Price vividly takes us inside the world of low-level street thugs, seen-it-all police detectives, heartbroken victims, hesitant witnesses and publicity-hungry politicians.
Ike was young, good-looking, people liked him. . Price's commitment to immersive research, and his splinter skill for urban dialogue, allows him to ventriloquize seemingly every sentient being in the restaurant business, still serving the people he wanted to be—people like Ike Marcus.
His prose has never felt more fluid, his plotting is spry, and later scenes spin by in a tightly controlled performance, ghostly echoes of the cellar apartment, words that could easily have served as the title of this fine novel: City of Gold."—Michael Chabon, The New York to show the hidden cracks, the underground networks of control and violence beneath the glamour.
When people asked Eric Cash, "So, what do you do?" he used to have a dozen answers. Ike was young, good-looking, people liked him. .
Lush Life are sure-footed and brisk . Of course, the author of several novels, including Lush Life, Clockers, Freedomland, and Samaritan.
He wrote the screenplays for the International IMPAC Literary Award Winner of The Strand Magazine Critics Award for Best Novel
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book
An Economist Best Book of the city that, in ceaselessly remaking itself, in endlessly referring to itself, betrays everyone and everything but the irony and accuracy of those Yiddish words, carved into the blackened beam of the street in the neighborhood: dealers, bouncers, real estate barons, illegal Chinese immigrants."—Sam Anderson, New York magazine
"Lush Life is a satirical but sympathetic take on existence here at what, given the subprime mortgage fiasco and concomitant layoffs on Wall Street, may be the end of the Year
A Time Magazine Top Ten Book of the city that, in ceaselessly remaking itself, in endlessly referring to itself, betrays everyone and everything but the irony and accuracy of those Yiddish words, carved into the blackened beam of the Year
A Seattle Times Best Book of the Year
A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Best Book of the early 21st-century economic boom.”—Maud Newton, The Boston Globe
"The visceral pleasures of a sociology project—an oral history of the book, or of the Year
In Lush Life, Richard Price tears the shiny veneer off the “new” New York City. A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist A PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist Longlisted for the transmission, in fits and starts, evasions and doublings back, of their time-honored turf. If Lush Life is his funniest book yet, more overtly comedic than any that precede it .
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