Lazarus Man

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Product Details
Price
$29.00  $26.97
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publish Date
Pages
352
Dimensions
6.35 X 9.25 X 1.21 inches | 1.22 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780374168155

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About the Author
Richard Price is the author of nine previous novels--including Clockers and Lush Life--all of which have won universal praise for their vividly etched portrayals of urban America. He has written for television dramas, including The Night Of, The Deuce, and The Wire, as well as numerous screenplays, including Sea of Love, Ransom, and The Color of Money, directed by Martin Scorsese, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, the novelist Lorraine Adams.
Reviews

"Price delivers a remarkable excavation of urban angst in this story of a five-story East Harlem tenement building that collapses . . . As [Price's] vivid characters cross paths following the tragedy, they compose a searing snapshot of contemporary Harlem annotated with the author's precise observations . . . Price once again proves he's the bard of New York City street life." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Richard Price has long been lauded as an expert observer of urban life in the United States. Lazarus Man, a streetwise story of a small group of New Yorkers brought together unexpectedly by tragedy and the quest for redemption, will only enhance that reputation . . . With his keen eye, efficiently constructed scenes, and, above all, crisp dialogue . . . [Price] follows the lives of these world-weary characters over the course of roughly 10 days, while artfully revealing the elements of their pasts that have brought them to this singular moment." --Harvey Freedenberg, Shelf Awareness

"Richard Price is our peerless dramatizer of the contemporary urban underbelly, reminding us that the beating heart of a city lies within the collective hearts of the denizens shuffling through their demanding lives . . . " --Booklist