Lush Life (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series) - Hardcover

Price, Richard

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9781410407399: Lush Life (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series)

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ISBN 10: 141040739X ISBN 13: 9781410407399

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2008

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'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 realism ...reads like a movie in prose' Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

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`He is most celebrated, as both novelist and screenwriter, for his naturalistic dialogue ... there's something convincing about the street talk in Lush Life ... There's pain and pleasure, sex and violence, naked greed and vaunting ambition. It's a potent combination' -- GQ

'It's pretty seldom that, only a few pages into a novel, you know you're in the hands of a writer who does what he does as well as anyone else alive. 'Lush Life' is that sort of book: entirely imagined, dense with life, and written sentence by sentence without a false note or a moment of drag.'
-- Sam Leith, Spectator

`Any fans of The Wire suffering withdrawal symptoms should load up on Richard Price' -- Monica Ali

`Detail and dialogue are, as always, spot-on' -- Dazed and Confused

`I deeply admired Richard Price's Lush Life for its wit, its pathos and its flawless dialogue' -- Zo� Heller

`Price's wide-ranging sympathies, dark humour and ability to push the morally muddled grind of everyday urban living so starkly into the light combine here to make this an enthralling read.' -- Metro

`With an ear for the street like no other writer, Price writes dialogue that's pacy, authentic and funny ... Lush Life is a great read - entertaining, textured, animated and often deeply true' -- Sunday Telegraph

`master chronicler of gritty urban street life ... Dickensian ... the book's main character - richly drawn, full or ironies and haunted by the past - is the Lower East Side' -- Daily Telegraph

About the Author:

Richard Price is the author of seven novels, including Clockers, Freedomland, and Samaritan. He won a 2007 Edgar Award for his writing on the HBO series The Wire. Richard Price lives in New York.

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