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Lush Life

by Richard Price

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Lush Life is a great read. I enjoyed it thoroughly and burned through it in a day and a half. It is a carefully crafted story but more of a police procedural than earlier books by Mr Price.
The story is told through dialogue, mostly the questioning of various witnesses to a brutal murder in the lower east side of Manhattan. Still, Samaritan remains my favourite Price novel. ( )
bhowell | Jul 1, 2009 |  
this a literary take on the police procedural that acurately captures the current scene on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. As has been sited in several reviews it is richly layered with the various ethnic and economic classes that live there side by side. The young strivers, actors who are waiters and young professionals hanging out in chic bar-restaurants, the black and latino kids living in poverty in the city projects, the chinatown denizens and the jewish enclaves all populate the action.

the story's main protagonist is a hapless detective struggling against the politicos who run the department while his own broken marriage throws up a curveball. he sympathetically tries to hold down the grieving and broken father of the murder victim.

a good read that does not dissappoint. ( )
berthirsch | Jun 17, 2009 | 1 vote
If I could give this book a 0 rating I would. I tried very hard to finish it and I couldn't. It's touted as a mystery but after reaching page 338/740 and still not seeing any mystery, I had to quit. I felt as if I was reading a really bad Law and Order episode that just went on and on and on. I'm not sure how this won all the awards?! I of course wouldn't recommend to anyone.

About a man killed during a botched hold-up by two young punks and the time the NYPD out of lower Manhattan spends trying to track down the perpetrators. ( )
FMRox | Jun 8, 2009 |  
Reading Lush Life is like reading an extended episode of HBO's series "The Wire." Not coincidentally, Price writes for the series and was recently nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for his writing on the show.
The novel starts with the murder of a young screenwriter and bartender in a botched mugging in the early morning hours in Manhattan's Lower East Side, and ends with a gunman confessing, but what happens in between is anything but ordinary. Price explores the relationships and boundaries between victims, perpetrators, witnesses, cops, and their families. In the end, the murder is solved, but we know it is only a matter of moments before another will occur and the web between victim, perp, wit, and cops will be woven anew. ( )
sarahes | May 26, 2009 | 1 vote
Price absorbs you right into his "Lush Life" universe, no shock of entry, no sense of disorientation. You ride alongside each of his flawed characters, the setting confined and instantly familiar, like the inside of a snow globe. ( )
kylenapoli | May 18, 2009 |  
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As always, with love for
Judy, Annie, and Gen
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The Quality of Life Task Force: four sweatshirts in a bogus taxi set up on the corner of Clinton Street alongside the Williamsburg Bridge off-ramp to profile the incoming salmon run; their mantra: Dope, guns, overtime; their motto: Everyone's got something to lose.
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Amazon.com (ISBN 0374299250, Hardcover)

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

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:18 -0400)

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