Review: Lush Life
Avis de journaliste - Bookreporter.com - Max FalkowitzThere's something Dostoevskian about Richard Price's writing for his way of ensnaring a whole atmosphere and richly turning it into an authentic aesthetic environment. He captures Lower East Side New York just as Dostoevsky does for St. Petersburg, with a full set of tensions and passions, blazing and smoldering, all full of life. And while Price lacks Dostoevsky's alltooRussian tendency to throw ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Lush Life
Avis d'utilisateur - KD Absolutely - GoodreadsThe two faces of New York Lower East Sides: one a high-priced bohemia and the other a home to hardship, its residents pushed to the edges of their time-honored turf. Eric Cash is one of those ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Lush Life
Avis d'utilisateur - KD Oliveros - GoodreadsThe two faces of New York Lower East Sides: one a high-priced bohemia and the other a home to hardship, its residents pushed to the edges of their time-honored turf. Eric Cash is one of those ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Lush Life
Avis d'utilisateur - Rachel - GoodreadsWhen it comes to the police procedural, no one is better than Richard Price, but Lush Life is his weakest novel of the last fifteen years. Billed as a culture clash between the immigrants, working ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Lush Life
Avis d'utilisateur - Greg - GoodreadsThere is a scene in the middle of Lush Life where the New York Post runs a story about one of the characters, a mid-thirties LES wanna-be someone but never will be anyone (or an aging failed hipster ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Lush Life
Avis d'utilisateur - Mike Lindgren - GoodreadsRichard Price's novel Lush Life is a messy brawl of a crime story; diffuse, overlong, ambiguous and vexing, the book is, in short, a perfect fictional mirror for contemporary New York City. Price's ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Lush Life
Avis d'utilisateur - Yulia - GoodreadsLazily written, this book may well make for a good movie one day, but it seems Price has spent too much time writing TV scripts, he's forgotten how to write prose (of course, I've not read anything ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Lush Life
Avis d'utilisateur - Nate's Bookgroup - GoodreadsI don't watch much crime TV. So I had no idea the author of this book is the lead writer for The Wire. I'm a little ignorant of the red tape police men and women have to cut through in order to bring ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Lush Life
Avis d'utilisateur - Joseph - GoodreadsMy rating is really 4.5 stars. This book was great. After reading the reviews that made me pick up this book, I was expecting a novel that "transcends genres and reflects the changing landscape of the ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Lush Life
Avis d'utilisateur - GoodreadsLush Life is a complex, gritty crime novel that also happens to be a haunting, anxious tale of gentrification, community and fatherhood, wrapped around a poison-pen love letter to the Lower East Side ...
