false 1862313 13 "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—until two street kids stepped up to him and Eric one night and pulled a gun. At least, that’s Eric’s version. In <i>Lush Life</I>, 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.<i> Lush Life</I> is an Xray of the street in the age of no broken windows and “quality of life” squads, from a writer whose “tough, gritty brand of social realism . . . reads like a movie in prose” (Michiko Kakutani,<i> The New York Times</I>). 2886449 4 3 2008 Lush Life: A Novel total:2996|5:540|4:1327|3:840|2:237|1:52| 2996 11054 5406 884 4 14 false false Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 05:56:43 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 14:55:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 10 false false Tue May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 16 19:32:51 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 17:52:53 -0700 2008
Seriously, this place sucks.

That's about all I got out of this book: a heightened sense of dissatisfaction and frustration with my environment. As menti...more...]]> 5 8 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 11:05:50 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 21 18:47:55 -0800 2007 more...]]> 0 6 false false Sat Jul 19 03:08:06 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 19:14:29 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 19:25:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Fri Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 04 15:04:33 -0800 2008 Sun Apr 20 11:00:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 15 10:08:49 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 26 08:45:41 -0700 2009 The Wire–like)...more...]]> 3 3 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 27 11:30:40 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 11:33:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 09 13:51:43 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 11 15:11:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 25 13:33:11 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 15 09:56:33 -0800 2007 ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 03:59:10 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 04:16:07 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 16:20:06 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 16:32:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 19:45:54 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 05:11:37 -0700 2008 not being exactly like we've ever heard people talk, but rather like ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 15:04:52 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 15:40:29 -0700 2008 just a crime novel" kind of stuff). For me, this was exactly the right book to turn to after feeling blue about the end of The Wire. As for me, I thought it was VERY good, and no...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Dec 22 23:31:42 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 21 18:30:02 -0700 2009
I listened to the audiobook recording which is narrated (to excellent e...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Oct 13 19:09:45 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 13 19:15:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 11:24:47 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 11:28:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 16:00:32 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 09:11:33 -0800 2009 I loved it and thought the writing was great.This will be a movie I am sure.]]> 1 1 false false Sun Jun 08 18:59:30 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 08 19:01:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 08:04:38 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 10:59:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 21 16:00:03 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 16:01:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1862313