Summary
Written in the author's distinctive quick-cut, cinematic style, full of rapid dialogue so "real" that a reader struggles at times to decode it, Lush Life centers on a mugging gone wrong on a Lower East Side street where late one night a pair of teenage wannabe gangsters mug three white men. [...] while Price evinces genuine sympathy for drug dealers and murderers, he can't seem to write a young, white character who isn't obnoxious, narcissistic, or vapid; his attitude toward the liberal-arts graduates who flock to Manhattan is consistently condescending.
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A Grim Tour
A Grim Tour Lush Life Richard Price Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26, 464 pp.
Best known for his 1992 novel Cloclcers, Richard Price writes gritty and urbane police procedurals whose nuanced realism is informed by modern sociology. In Price's novels, the modern city is mo...See the full content of this document
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