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Richard Price is One of Our Best Chroniclers of Street Lifenew

Price's recently released and bestselling eighth novel is Lush Life, another sprawling work. A restaurant worker is gunned down in a gentrifying neighborhood on the Lower East Side of New York, and two streetwise cops hit the pavement to find out what happened. The answer isn't simple, as it never is in Price's stories.
New Haven Advocate  |  Jim Motavalli  |  06-10-2008  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

An Interview With Richard Price, Written in the Style of Richard Pricenew

To the best of Brian McManus' (limited) ability.
Philadelphia Weekly  |  Brian McManus  |  04-07-2008  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

Ambition Achievednew

Richard Price betrays his cellular familiarity with the Lower East Side in Lush Life, his riveting eighth novel, without once sounding like he's broken a sweat.
The Portland Mercury  |  Chas Bowie  |  03-20-2008  |  Fiction

The Moore Things Stay the Same

Freedomland is a most amazing story of sorts, but in the end, its much and often absurd ado goes nowhere and amounts to nothing.
Washington City Paper  |  Tricia Olszewski  |  02-17-2006  |  Reviews

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