A review by bonnoggle
Lush Life by Richard Price

5.0

This book is excellent. The dialogue alone is worth a 5 stars. The author also wrote for The Wire, and you can feel the authenticity oozing through the pages. It's a noir book (cited as the best modern NYC noir book by several mystery writers) where the good guys and bad guys are not clearly delineated. The ending is also shades of grey... For those about the read the novel, the main characters are Matty, the slow-but-not cop in the Lower East Side, and Eric, a depressed waiter/writer. The other characters are important, but it will help to know who to pay attention to at first!