Lush Life: A NovelMacmillan, 4 mars 2008 - 455 pages 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 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 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 Xray 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). |
Table des matières
QUALITY OF LIFE 1100 PM | 3 |
ONE WHISTLE | 13 |
TWO LIAR | 33 |
THREE FIRST BIRD A FEW BUTTERFLIES | 149 |
FOUR LET IT DIE | 157 |
FIVE WANT CARDS | 241 |
SIX THE DEVIL YOU KNOW | 279 |
SEVEN WOLF TICKETS | 359 |
EIGHT 17 PLUS 25 IS 32 | 439 |
NINE SHELL BE APPLES | 449 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 457 |
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