Lush Life: A Novel [Paperback]

ANational Bestseller
ANew York TimesNotable Bookof the Year

Lush Lifeis a tale of two Lower East Sides: one a high-priced bohemia, the other a home to hardship, it's residents pushed to the edges of their time-honored turf. When a cocky young hipster is shot to death by a street kid from the other lower east side, the crime ripples through every stratum of the city in this brilliant and kaleidiscopic portrait of the new New York.

Richard Priceis the author of seven novels, includingClockersandFreedomland. He has received an Academy Award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and shared a 2007 Edgar? Award as a cowriter of HBO's miniseriesThe Wire.

Mr. Price's most powerful and galvanic work yet, a novel that showcases his sympathy and his street cred and all his skills as a novelist and screenwriter . . . A visceral, heart-thumping portrait of New York City and some of its residents, complete with soundtrack, immortalized in this dazzling prosemovie of a novel. Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

A big, powerful novel . . . Its real protagonist is the complicated, tragic, and endlessly fascinating American city street. . . . Outstanding. Jennifer Reese, Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A)

His prose has never felt more fluid, his plotting is spry. . . . Price's ability to capture and reproduce the rhythm, tone, and evanescent vocabulary of urban life cannot be over-praised: with all due respect to Elmore Leonard, Price is our best, one of the best writers of dialogue in the history of American literature. Michael Chabon, The New York Review of Books

Richard Price knows how crime sounds and smells, and he knows that it's all tied up in race and class, two big subjects all too rare in American fiction. . . . Every sentence is a pleasure. John H. Richardson, Esquire

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