In Books: Richard Price’s ‘The Whites’

Even though The Whiteswas technically published under Richard Price’sgenre pen name Harry Brandt,the publisher didn’t even bother leaving his realname off the thing. It might be a crime novel instead of straight realist fiction and a couple hundred pages shorter than his usual. But the style is unmistakably that of the writer who brought such lived-in detail to novels likeThe Wanderers andLush Life and his scripts forThe Wire. This time, it’s just a little tighter, more razored. So in short:...