Lush Life

by Richard Price

Lush 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 "other" lower east side, the crime ripples through every stratum of the city in this brilliant and kaleidoscopic portrait of the "new" New York.

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Richard Price is the author of seven novels, including Clockers and Freedomland. 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 miniseries The Wire.

Price creates a riveting world where several characters connect through an act of violence. Race, poverty and dreams deferred are revealed as characters deal with the aftermath.

A writer with a sharp social conscience, this novel shows the price that must be paid to keep New York’s streets safe for social climbers.