Event Listing - Literary Arts
Wed Mar 26

Richard Price delivers Lush Life


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Date and Time
Cody's Books
1730 Fourth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710 map
district: Berkeley (West)

Wed Mar 26 (7:00 PM)

Description
RICHARD PRICE delivers LUSH LIFE, a new novel. So, what do you do? Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter...but now he's 35 and he's still living on the Lower East Side, still in the restaurant business, still serving the people he wanted to be. What does he do? He manages. Not like Ike: young, good-looking, he wouldn't say "tending bar" when asked what he did. Price tears off the shiny veneer of the "new" New York to show the hidden crack, the underground networks of control and violence. Richard Price's novels include Clockers, Freedomland, and Samaritan. He won a 2007 Edgar Award for his writing on the HBO series The Wire. Russell Banks writes of him, "With Lush Life Richard Price has become our post-modern Balzac. Except he's a whole lot funnier than Balzac and writes the language we hear and speak better than any novelist around, living or dead, American or French.