Richard Price
1) Lazarus man
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble... As the city's rescue services and media outlets respond, the surrounding neighborhood descends into chaos. By day's end, six bodies have been recovered but many of the other tenants are missing. In Lazarus Man, Richard Price... creates intertwining portraits of a group of compelling and singular characters whose lives are permanently affected by the...
2) Lush life
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eric Cash is now thirty-five years old and he's still living on the Lower East Side, still in the restaurant business, still serving the people he always wanted to be. What does Eric do? He manages. Not like Ike Marcus. Ike was young, good looking, people liked him. Ask him what he did, he wouldn't say tending bar. He was going places, until two street kids stepped up to him and Eric on Eldridge Street one night and pulled a gun. At least, that's...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Back in the bad old days, when Billy Graves worked for an anti-crime unit in [the South Bronx] known as the Wild Geese, the NYPD branded him as a cowboy. Now forty, he has somehow survived and become a sergeant in Manhattan Night Watch. Mostly, his team of detectives conducts a series of holding actions--and after years in police purgatory, Billy is content simply to do his job. But soon after he gets a [4:00] a.m. call about the fatal knifing of...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Follows a single sprawling drug investigation in Baltimore, against the backdrop of the mayor's reelection campaign. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, where easy distinctions between good and evil are challenged at every turn.