Lush Life (novel)
LC Class PS3566.R544 L89 2008 | | |
Preceded by | Samaritan |
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Lush Life is a contemporary social novel by Richard Price. It is Price's eighth novel, and was published in 2008 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Plot summary
The book is set in the
Detective Matty Clark winds up investigating the crime, and keeping an eye on Ike's distraught father Billy, whose behavior becomes increasingly erratic. Cash is initially arrested for the crime, but later released when the accounts of other witnesses back up his own; his own behavior is affected as he has difficulty coping with the memory of the incident and the stresses of the police interrogation. Interwoven with the main plot are vignettes of the Lower East Side and the waves of immigrants that have come through there and lived in its tenements over the years.Reception
The novel received mostly rave reviews from a wide variety of media sources.
Some reviewers were equally positive, but not without some reservations.
The novel gained further attention when it was revealed that US President Barack Obama would be reading it during his 2009 summer vacation.[14]
References
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- ^ "Were We Right or Were We Right: Richard Price's Lush Life". Publishers Weekly. 2008-03-06. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
- ^ Kois, Dan; Brown, Lane (2008-03-04). "Richard Price on 'Lush Life,' Martin Scorsese, and Michael Jackson". New York. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
- ^ Anderson, Sam (2008-03-03). "Stalking the Gramno: A book-review procedural about Richard Price's Lush Life". New York. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
- ^ Kakutani, Michiko (2008-03-04). "A Kaleidoscopic Perspective on a Murder, and Dreams Lost and Found". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
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Goldberg, Carole. "Review: 'Lush Life' by Richard Price, a mystery that shakes and stirs". The Hartford Courant. Archived from the originalon 2013-02-03. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
- ^ Reese, Jennifer (2008-02-28). "Review: Richard Price's Lush Life". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
- ^ Moore, Clayton (January 2008). "Richard Price and the Lush Life". Bookslut.com. Archived from the original on 2008-04-10. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
- ^ Richardson, John H (2008-02-28). "Big Important Book of the Month: Lush Life". Esquire. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
- ^ Woodward, Richard B (2008-03-10). "Richard Price's criminal intelligence". Salon.com. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
- ^ Ulin, David L (2008-03-02). "Book Review: Lush Life". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2008-05-31. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
- ^ "2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2016-01-23.
- ^ Flood, Alison (August 25, 2009). "Obama unpacks his holiday reading". The Guardian. Retrieved 2009-08-25.