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Lush Life: A Novel (Paperback)

by Richard Price (Author)
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Starred Review. Master of the Bronx and Jersey projects, Price (Clockers) turns his unrelenting eye on Manhattan's Lower East Side in this manic crescendo of a novel that explores the repercussions of a seemingly random shooting. When bartender Ike Marcus is shot to death after barhopping with friends, NYPD Det. Matty Clark and his team first focus on restaurant manager and struggling writer Eric Cash, who claims the group was accosted by would-be muggers, despite eyewitnesses saying otherwise. As Matty grills Eric on the still-hazy details of the shooting, Price steps back and follows the lives of the alleged shooters—teenagers Tristan Acevedo and Little Dap Williams, who live in a nearby housing project—as well as Ike's grieving father, Billy, who hounds the police even as leads dwindle. As the intersecting narratives hurtle toward a climax that's both expected and shocking, Price peels back the layers of his characters and the neighborhood until all is laid bare. With its perfect dialogue and attention to the smallest detail, Price's latest reminds readers why he's one of the masters of American urban crime fiction. Author tour. (Mar.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Price's latest novel is a tale of two men going in completely different directions in their respective lives who are ultimately united after a single late-night incident. The story is wonderfully realized by narrator Bobby Cannavale. The reading is the stuff that makes audiobooks so wonderful: impassioned, authentic, and true. Cannavale's throaty New York accent brings these characters to life in a way that will make listeners feel nosy just by listening. Cannavale understands the complicated psychological narrative that Price has penned and never fails to captivate his listener through the mounting tension that builds from the very start. This reading is a remarkable performance that grips the audience and brings them into Eric and Ike's dark world. Fantastic! L.B. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars What if doesn't quite match a feeling for what is, Jun 6 2008
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This review is from: Lush Life (Hardcover)
Rarely are regular middle class Americans confronted with the violence the "Black and/or Hispanic" underclass must face everyday. This is the essence of Lush Life, a sophisticated `what if' story which starts with three young white men, all aspiring to a life in the theatre but working in restaurants. When they are held at gun point by two "Black and/or Hispanic" men, one refuses to hand over his wallet and is subsequently shot. The plot follows one of the surviving white young men, the distraught and angry father and a semi-detached investigator. The story begins as plot and character driven and after about a hundred pages moves to an angst driven character study I'm used to reading in a Richard Ford novel. I just never got the visceral feeling that the story was true the way I got from Clockers and the recent spin-off television series, "The Wire." Lush Life struck me more as a sophisticated "what if" story. What if a good looking white middle class male was gunned down in the streets and his family had to cope with an event would seem quite ordinary to "Black and/or Hispanic" families growing up in the projects in large American cities? It's an interesting but not filled with the visceral truth of his previous novel.
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