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A review by writesdave
Lush Life by Richard Price
4.0
It gets four stars for Price's well-developed characters and his stunning proficiency in writing dialogue. I mean, Salinger captured perfectly conversations with a teen on the brink, and Wolfe's ear for conversation puts you as a fly on the wall, but Price deserves mention here, too. Every TV interrogation you've ever seen lands in Price's writing of two cops chatting with a person of interest, a restaurant host debriefing his staff, two hoods casing out a potential mark. He gets right the disaffected dialect of the "too-cool," too; no need for New York eye dialect.
Price also juggles any number of tentacles of stories, prompting you to wonder how they'll all come together. But that's how it ends. The ending was a little too tidy for me, though "Clockers" ends somewhat the same only with a better setup. Most of the time I enjoy detailed descriptions of different locales but I found myself lost at times in Price's Lower Manhattan.
Still, I don't normally read crime novels and I only hipped myself to Price a couple years back after watching "The Wire." I found it an enjoyable and fast-paced read (notwithstanding the two months it took me to finish). I agree that this might make a hell of a screenplay. You game, Richard?
Price also juggles any number of tentacles of stories, prompting you to wonder how they'll all come together. But that's how it ends. The ending was a little too tidy for me, though "Clockers" ends somewhat the same only with a better setup. Most of the time I enjoy detailed descriptions of different locales but I found myself lost at times in Price's Lower Manhattan.
Still, I don't normally read crime novels and I only hipped myself to Price a couple years back after watching "The Wire." I found it an enjoyable and fast-paced read (notwithstanding the two months it took me to finish). I agree that this might make a hell of a screenplay. You game, Richard?