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| Lush Life | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Price
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Category: Book
List Price: CDN$ 28.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 260
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 464
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.1 x 1.6
ISBN: 0374299250
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780374299255
ASIN: 0374299250
Publication Date: March 10, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
What if doesn't quite match a feeling for what is June 7, 2008
Rarely are regular middle class Americans confronted with the violence the "Black and/or Hispanic" underclass must face everyday. This is the essence of Lush Life, a sophisticated `what if' story which starts with three young white men, all aspiring to a life in the theatre but working in restaurants. When they are held at gun point by two "Black and/or Hispanic" men, one refuses to hand over his wallet and is subsequently shot. The plot follows one of the surviving white young men, the distraught and angry father and a semi-detached investigator. The story begins as plot and character driven and after about a hundred pages moves to an angst driven character study I'm used to reading in a Richard Ford novel. I just never got the visceral feeling that the story was true the way I got from Clockers and the recent spin-off television series, "The Wire." Lush Life struck me more as a sophisticated "what if" story. What if a good looking white middle class male was gunned down in the streets and his family had to cope with an event would seem quite ordinary to "Black and/or Hispanic" families growing up in the projects in large American cities? It's an interesting but not filled with the visceral truth of his previous novel.
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