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A review by blevins
Lush Life by Richard Price
3.0
While I enjoyed this--it is a tad too loose and full of too many characters to build on any kind of tension and suspense. Too bad as it has a lot of positive elements to it that could have really raised it to another level.
Price can write dialogue like nobody's business and that is the strength of the novel--the conversations the characters have. The range of characters is all over the place--cops, murder suspects, grieving parents, gangstas, teenagers, males, females, damaged victims of crime--as the story unfolds on the Lower East Side area of Manhattan. It's good but with Price working full steam I wanted it to be better than that.
Price can write dialogue like nobody's business and that is the strength of the novel--the conversations the characters have. The range of characters is all over the place--cops, murder suspects, grieving parents, gangstas, teenagers, males, females, damaged victims of crime--as the story unfolds on the Lower East Side area of Manhattan. It's good but with Price working full steam I wanted it to be better than that.