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Sign up todayLush Life
A Novel
Narrator
Bobby Cannavale
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Length
12 hours 59 minutes
Language
English
"So, what do you do?" Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter...But now he's 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 Eric's version.
In Lush Life, Richard Price tears the shiny veneer off the "new" New York to show us the hidden cracks, the underground networks of control and violence beneath the glamour. Lush Life is an X-ray of the street in the age of no broken windows and "quality of life" squads, from a writer whose "tough, gritty brand of social realism...reads like a movie in prose" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).
Richard Price is the author of several novels—including Lazarus Man, 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.
Bobby Cannavale won an Emmy Award for his guest appearance on the hit TV show Will & Grace. His other TV credits include Third Watch, Ally McBeal, Law & Order, Oz, and Six Feet Under. He received acclaim for his performance in the film The Station Agent and was seen in the films Fast Food Nation, The Bone Collector, Shall We Dance, and The Take. He received a Tony Award nomination for his role in Mauritius.
Cannavale’s audiobook credits include reading several AudioFile Earphones Award-winning books. He’s narrated for Richard Price, James Patterson, and Lou Manfredo, among others. Of Cannavale’s voice in Rizzo’s War, AudioFile magazine remarked, “Cannavale’s ability to capture Joe's deep, gravelly voice, the voice of a heavy smoker, along with his pronounced Brooklyn accent, is truly something to marvel at.”
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