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Say What?(Book review)
What if, for once, we did not credit Richard Price with having a "wonderful ear for dialogue"? What if we praised his wonderful mind for dialogue instead? An "ear" for dialogue always seems to imply reportorial or stenographic prowess, the writer sitting in a bar or a bus, studiously agog for the modern mot. Henry Green, the author of perhaps the greatest English novel of dialogue, "Loving," a book written almost entirely in the speech of Cockney servants, insisted that his job was to create, "in the mind of the reader, life which is not, and which is non-representational."
And, indeed, one would have to get very drunk or ride on a magic bus to hear the kinds of ...
- East Side Story.(Profile)(Richard Price's Lush Life)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Jones, Malcolm March 10, 2008 700+ words
...Manhattan's Lower East Side, the polyglot neighborhood...latest novel, "Lush Life." Sitting over...nicest lines in "Lush Life" is in the opening...the new Lower East Side." With all due...delectable appetizer. "Lush Life," the work of...
- Richard Price. Lush Life.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Jacobs, Rita D. November 1, 2008 700+ words
Richard Price. Lush Life. New York. Farrar, Straus...vibrant, quirky--and in Lush Life, he may have surpassed...The scene is the Lower East Side of New York, with its...woman, though, for in Lush Life the ideal woman may be...
- A grim tour: Lush Life.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Aubrey, Stephen August 15, 2008 700+ words
...And in fact, Lush Life is less concerned...view of the Lower East Side, cataloguing social...host in a hip Lower East Side restaurant. At...wanders the Lower East Side, searching in vain...of grief. Though Lush Life is complex, nuanced...
- Big important book of he month.(Books)(Lush Life)(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Esquire Richardson, John H. March 1, 2008 700+ words
...judiciary class: Corrupt people bend; good people snap. Lush Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26) is Price's version...wannabe artists are out on a bender in New York's trendy Lower East Side when a couple of kids from the projects try to rob them. Wannabe...
- Book club: it's cops, robbers, and hipsters in the hood, as the book club takes...
- Magazine article from: Marie Claire March 1, 2009 700+ words
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE PLOT: At 4 a.m. on New York's Lower East Side, Ike Marcus is shot and killed. His drinking buddy, Eric Cash, says two kids from the projects nearby did it. But when Cash...
- Lush Life Nail Bar Becomes San Francisco's Newest Lounge for the Hip and...
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 10, 2004 700+ words
...VIP Party Place for Those 'In The Know', Lush Life Nail Bar Has It All Quick question: Where can...colors worthy of a Milan runway? Where else? Lush Life Nail Bar of course! Lush Life Nail Bar is the epitome of affordable luxury...
- LUSH LIFE'S EXECUTION OF ITALIAN FARE LIVES UP TO CAFE'S NAME MOST...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Roberts, Gregory January 16, 1998 700+ words
...black pack the dining room and bar at Lush Life. They all look good, too, under those...First Avenue. They branched out with Lush Life in October, moving into the ocher...a not-quite-exhibition kitchen. Lush Life takes its name from the Billy Strayhorn...
- 'Lush Life' brings Strayhorn overdue credit .
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) February 6, 2007 700+ words
...documentary film, "Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life" (10 p.m. Tuesday on WTTW-Ch...important, the credit he was due. "Lush Life" dares to tell this story, unflinchingly...glory it afforded him. In so doing, "Lush Life" not only illuminates Strayhorn's...
