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Richard Price, born in the Bronx, graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1967 and obtained a BA from Cornell University and an MFA from Columbia. He also did graduate work at Stanford. He has taught writing at Columbia, Yale, and New York University.
Price is the author of nine novels, most recently The Whites, originally published under the pseudonym Harry Brandt. His other novels include Clockers, Freedomland, and Samaritan. In 1999 he received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2007 he won an Edgar Award for his writing on the HBO series The Wire. His miniseries The Night Of was premiered on HBO in July 2016.
His fiction, articles and essays have appeared in Best American Essays 2002, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Esquire, The Village Voice and Rolling Stone. He has also written numerous screenplays, including Sea of Love, Ransom, and The Color of Money.
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Reprinted, with permission, from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Has anyone in recent memory written such complex, insightful and entertaining
novels about urban life in America as Richard Price? Those who have their doubts
should read Lush Life, Price's most recent novel - now out in paperback.
Like Clockers (1992) and his two other books set in fictional Dempsey,
N.J. - Freedomland (1998) and Samaritan (2002) - Lush Life
paints a richly textured portrait of city dwellers that would make Balzac and
Dickens proud: The novel is populated with quick-witted cops, underprivileged
teenage criminals, ethically challenged officials, and overworked and
long-suffering average joes.
After the Dempsey novels, Lush Life marks a return to New York City, as
it were, for Price, a 59-year-old native of the Bronx whose first novel, The
Wanderers (1974), portrayed gang life in that borough. Lush Life is
set on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the old, largely Jewish immigrant
neighborhood where Price's grandparents lived - and which today is a popular
slumming spot for a young, mostly white crowd.
The novel centers on a late-night homicide in the neighborhood, and the police
investigation into the crime. But the story...
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