$32.95 (Trade paperback / Bloomsbury / ISBN:9780747595441)
Lush Life
'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 X-ray 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.' - New
York Times.
International Fiction April 2008
