Lush Life

`He is most celebrated, as both novelist and screenwriter, for his naturalistic dialogue ... there's something convincing about the street talk in Lush Life ... There's pain and pleasure, sex and violence, naked greed and vaunting ambition. It's a potent combination' -- GQ

'It's pretty seldom that, only a few pages into a novel, you know you're in the hands of a writer who does what he does as well as anyone else alive. 'Lush Life' is that sort of book: entirely imagined, dense with life, and written sentence by sentence without a false note or a moment of drag.'
-- Sam Leith, Spectator

`Any fans of The Wire suffering withdrawal symptoms should load up on Richard Price' -- Monica Ali

`Detail and dialogue are, as always, spot-on' -- Dazed and Confused

`I deeply admired Richard Price's Lush Life for its wit, its pathos and its flawless dialogue' -- Zoë Heller

`Price's wide-ranging sympathies, dark humour and ability to push the morally muddled grind of everyday urban living so starkly into the light combine here to make this an enthralling read.' -- Metro

`With an ear for the street like no other writer, Price writes dialogue that's pacy, authentic and funny ... Lush Life is a great read - entertaining, textured, animated and often deeply true' -- Sunday Telegraph

`master chronicler of gritty urban street life ... Dickensian ... the book's main character - richly drawn, full or ironies and haunted by the past - is the Lower East Side' -- Daily Telegraph

Richard Price is the author of seven novels, including Clockers, Freedomland, and Samaritan. He won a 2007 Edgar Award for his writing on the HBO series The Wire.

Bobby Cannavale won an Emmy Award for his guest appearance on the hit TV show Will & Grace. His other TV credits include Third Watch, Ally McBeal, Law & Order, Oz, and Six Feet Under.