Tower Blog

Tower Book Club, March Selection: Lush Life by Richard Price

March 14, 2008 by Romy

After 5 years, Richard Price has finally delivered his latest masterpiece of detective fiction in Lush Life. If you’ve been following the hit shows on HBO lately, you’ll know that the urban gritty reality of cities is something worth paying attention to – just check out The Sopranos or The Wire. In fact, Price has been a writer for The Wire, so can just imagine the setting for Lush Life.

Set in New York, actually in Manhattan’s Lower East Side to be more specific. Where a murder has just taken place early one morning in a dive bar. What unfolds is a masterful detective story, devoid of the classic clichés and full of the suspense and character richness that we have come to expect from Price. We are invited into understanding the dialogues and relationship found in big cities between cops and criminals, bartenders and their alcoholics, disenfranchised artists and their successful counterparts, and so forth. For a truly filmic experience while reading a novel, check out Richard Price’s novel Lush Life. For a unique experience – try a copy of the audio Lush Life and listen to it in your car as you drive through your own city.