Since 1974, when he published “The Wanderers” at 24, Richard Price has been writing memorable novels about police and criminals, but I tend not to think of him as a crime writer. Rather, I believe that his talent has lifted him beyond genre and made him simply one of the finest American novelists, period.
Book reviews. Freedomland Richard Price. Richard Price sought to understand the social and cultural effects of a heinous crime cruelly exploited by a headline-thirsty media and insensitive political opportunists without regard for truth on a mid-sized American city fraught with racial tensions.Price is the master of dialogue and capturing the Richard Price can capture the feel of a community and its inhabitants like nobody else; I completely believe and inhabit the worlds he's describing. While I was not a 16 year old boy coming of age in the Bronx in 1962, I feel like Price has captured it perfectly.In his review of Price's novel Lush Life (2008), Walter Kirn compared Price to Raymond Chandler and Saul Bellow. In July 2010, a group art show inspired by Lush Life was held in nine galleries in New York City. Price wrote a detective novel entitled The Whites under the pen name Harry Brandt.
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Recently, I re-read Clockers as an ebook, having wanted to add a copy to my digital book collection. It is time for a review. Richard Price writes a story from the perspective of two main characters, a homicide detective and a mid-level drug dealer whose lives, ultimately, not only intersect but intertwine.
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Lush Life is a contemporary social novel by Richard Price. It is Price's eighth novel, and was published in 2008 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Plot summary ( edit ) The book is set in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and begins with a crime that at first seems straightforward, but quickly expands into a thicket of complications.
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Clockers is a 1992 novel by American author Richard Price. The book takes place in the fictitious city of Dempsey (based on Newark and Jersey City) in North Jersey.It centers on the workings of a local drug gang and the dynamics between the drug dealers, the police and the community.
Book Review: Review by Guy Savage AUG 11, 2011) Crude and hilarious, Ladies’ Man from American author and screenwriter, Richard Price is a week in the life of Kenny Becker, a thirty-year-old college dropout who works as door-to-door salesman selling crappy cheap gadgets.
The only thing even close to a flaw in this book is its plot’s surface resemblance to that of Clockers. But this time Price digs deeper, and the pain is sharper. There oughta be a law requiring Richard Price to publish more frequently. Because nobody does it better. Really. No time, no way.
Richard Price is the author of seven novels, including Lush Life, Clockers, Freedomland, and Samaritan. He wrote the screenplays for the films Sea of Love, Ransom, and The Color of Money, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He won the 2007 Edgar Award for Best TV writing as a co-writer for the HBO series The Wire. Price was also.
Chapter one begins: “Now is the time of chestnuts.” It isn’t the only sentence in the book that teeters on the brink. The Overstory is a ranter’s sermon. By the end of it you’ll know.
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