August 15, 2008

Books

A Grim Tour

Lush LifeRichard PriceFarrar, Straus and Giroux, $26, 464 pp.

Stephen Aubrey

Best known for his 1992 novel Clockers, Richard Price writes gritty and urbane police procedurals whose nuanced realism is informed by modern sociology. In Price’s novels, the modern city is more than a mere setting for a crime; it is a character itself, a perilous, richly populated ecosystem governed by ruthless economic and social forces. There is little hope in Price’s f (...)


 

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