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Lush Life Hardcover – 4 Mar. 2008
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- Print length455 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date4 Mar. 2008
- Dimensions16.74 x 4.1 x 22.5 cm
- ISBN-100374299250
- ISBN-13978-0374299255
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- Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux; 1st edition (4 Mar. 2008)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 455 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0374299250
- ISBN-13 : 978-0374299255
- Dimensions : 16.74 x 4.1 x 22.5 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 2,244,452 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- 172,238 in Mysteries (Books)
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The description of New York was shocking and believable; the day to day drugs, guns, violence, respect and fashion. It was so much more than, for example, Mr Pelecanos' A-Z travel guides. Loved his description of the street gang feigning innocence by, 'turning their eyes skyward as if posing for a religious painting' when challenged by the police.
The characters were not entirely sympathetic, even the 'doe-eyed' Yolanda, but they were convincing. I cheered for the Quality of Life cops and hoped that Matty Clark's attraction for the victim's stepmother would bear fruit. The writing is witty and quirky. It was one of the best police procedurals that I have read - so why not five stars?
The problem is the first thirty pages. It is as though Mr Price has to throw his medals on the table and demonstrate his street-cred to the new reader. He jumps about, writing with patois and a lippy glibness that I scan read and nearly closed the book on. It is so bewildering that even in the text one street kid has to ask another what a 'dolgier' is? Even the characters were baffled! I did persevere and re-read the first thirty pages bit by bit later.
Will look for more from this author.
I found the characters hard to like, and in some cases hard to remember! I found the plot tedious and although the quality of the writing was fantastic and descriptive, I found the area of New York that the book was set in a bit stale and overworked.






