Publisher, Macmillan Audio (March 2008)

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Praise for Richard Price:

“Richard Price is the greatest writer of dialogue, living or dead, this country has ever produced. Wry, profane, hilarious, and tragic, sometimes in a single line, Lush Life is his masterwork. I doubt anyone will write a novel this good for a long, long time.” —Dennis Lehane on Lush Life

“Price writes with the slightly manic desperation of someone determined to tell the absolute truth...This heightened, anxious awareness of moral and psychological complexity is one of the great accomplishments of first-rate writing.” —Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review on Freedomland

“Perhaps we are no longer used to novelists who are superb reporters...[Price’s] characters come alive in a few paragraphs and remain living presences after they depart.” —Charles Taylor, Salon on Samaritan

From a great American realist—the author of Clockers and co-writer of The Wire—a riveting story of two urban worlds in collision

“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 always 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 on Eldridge Street 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 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, The New York Times).

About the Author: Richard Price is the author of seven novels, including Clockers, Freedomland, and Samaritan. He won a 2007 Edgar Award for his writing on the HBO series The Wire.