Lush Life
of Richard Price
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"Price is the greatest writer of dialogue, living or dead, this country has ever produced. Wry, profane, hilarious, and tragic, sometimes in a single line, Lush Life is his masterwork. I doubt anyone will write a novel this good for a long, long time." â Dennis Lehane"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 X-ray of the street in the age of no broken windows and "quality of life" squads, from a writer whose "tough, gritty brand of social realismâŠreads like a movie in prose." â Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 464 pages
- Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication Date March 4th 2008
- First Publication 03/30/08
- Language English
- ISBN 9780374299255
- Edition First Edition
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Lower East Side, New York City, New York (United States)', 'Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York (United States)']
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