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Title	:	Lush Life
Author	:	Richard Price
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	March 4th 2008 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published March 2008)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Crime. New York

Lush Life

Richard Price

Hardcover | Pages: 464 pages

Rating: 3.7 | 11337 Users | 1624 Reviews

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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." — 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 realism…reads like a movie in prose." — Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times.

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Original Title:	Lush Life
ISBN:	0374299250 (ISBN13: 9780374299255)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Eric Cash, Ike Marcus, Matty Clark
Setting:	Lower East Side, New York City, New York(United States) Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York(United States)
Literary Awards:	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2009), Strand Critics Award for Best Novel (2008)

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The two faces of New York Lower East Sides: one a high-priced bohemia and the other a home to hardship, its residents pushed to the edges of their time-honored turf.Eric Cash is one of those residents. He has been a bartender for 8 years and dreams of becoming an actor or a writer or a restaurateur. He has been dreaming that long in fact for 8 years so that he is now the oldest employee at Café Berkmann. At 32, although he is already the manager, he is bored on waiting when any of his dreams

Man, I am so over New York City. Seriously. I want to pack it all up and move to Berlin.... too bad I don't know any German.Seriously, this place sucks.That's about all I got out of this book: a heightened sense of dissatisfaction and frustration with my environment. As mentioned below, I never cared at all about any of the characters, and there didn't seem to be much of a point to the plot or anything that anyone did the whole time. I guess I mildly enjoyed it, in a bored kind of way. It was

Eric Cash is a restaurant manager in New York City. He's a failed writer and actor, coming to the long-gestating realization that he's never going to achieve his heartfelt goals. One night, he goes out with a co-worker, Ike, and Ike's friend Steven. There's a mugging, or so Erick says, and Ike gets shot and killed. This is the plot of Richard Price's Lush Life. But like Clockers, plot isn't high on Price's list of things to do. He is a master of place and dialogue. Sure, this is a police

Richard Price - image from The Paris Review - Photo Credit Lorraine Adams Set in Manhattans Lower East Side, Lush Life shows a place that is rich in all sorts of humanity. The crime is a meaningless street homicide, but Price uses the event as a McGuffin for painting a portrait of a piece of New York, a vision of a neighborhood in transition, complete with city projects and gentrifying real estate, cops, robbers and residents, the way things are, politically. There is a lot going on here. Price

Richard Price - image from The Paris Review - Photo Credit Lorraine Adams Set in Manhattans Lower East Side, Lush Life shows a place that is rich in all sorts of humanity. The crime is a meaningless street homicide, but Price uses the event as a McGuffin for painting a portrait of a piece of New York, a vision of a neighborhood in transition, complete with city projects and gentrifying real estate, cops, robbers and residents, the way things are, politically. There is a lot going on here. Price

Lush Life is a complex, gritty crime novel that also happens to be a haunting, anxious tale of gentrification, community and fatherhood, wrapped around a poison-pen love letter to the Lower East Side. Ignoring any one of those facets would miss the nuanced big picture thing that Price has going on here, but Lush Life doesn't require all that much digging and scratching on the reader's end. It's a visceral, immediate read. Don't be surprised if you can't put it down.

I love Richard Price's ear for dialogue, how he can recreate with precision the way an aging LES hipster or cop from New Dorp Beach would verbally navigate a murder scene or essay a response to a tabloid hack's query. Plus, the comic moments are short and staccato just like how in real life funny things tend to pop out of the ordinary and then quickly die away.