โ Scribed by Richard Price
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
'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 โ 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 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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A National BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of the YearLush Life is 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 "oth
### Amazon.com Review 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,
### Amazon.com Review 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 s
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