{"title":"Richard Price","description":"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.","products":[{"product_id":"lazarus-man-paperback","title":"Lazarus Man - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of \u003ci\u003eClockers\u003c\/i\u003e and a writer on \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003egives us razor-sharp anatomy of an ever-changing Harlem.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEast Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble, pancaking the cars parked in front and coating the street with a thick layer of ash. As the city's rescue services and media outlets respond, the surrounding neighborhood descends into chaos. At day's end, six bodies are recovered, but many of the other tenants are missing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLazarus Man\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard Price, one of the greatest chroniclers of life in urban America, creates intertwining portraits of a group of compelling and singular characters whose lives are permanently impacted by the disaster. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnthony Carter--whose miraculous survival, after being buried for days beneath tons of brick and stone, transforms him into a man with a message and a passionate sense of mission. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFelix Pearl--a young transplant to the city, whose photography and film work that day provokes in this previously unformed soul a sharp sense of personal destiny. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRoyal Davis--owner of a failing Harlem funeral home, whose desperate trolling of the scene for potential \"customers\" triggers a quest to find another path in life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd Mary Roe--a veteran city detective who, driven in part by her own family's brutal history, becomes obsessed with finding Christopher Diaz, one of the building's missing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePrice, the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eLush Life\u003c\/i\u003e and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Whites\u003c\/i\u003e, has created a bravura portrait of a community on the edge of disintegration. Rich with indelible characters and high drama, \u003ci\u003eLazarus Man\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting work of suspense and social vision by one of our major writers.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102481813727,"sku":"9781250397829","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/jYsfrVrLkr9781250397829.webp?v=1781083338"},{"product_id":"lush-life-paperback","title":"Lush Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA National Bestseller\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eNotable Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the most acclaimed novels of the year, Richard Price's \u003ci\u003eLush Life \u003c\/i\u003eis a tale of two Lower East Sides: one a high-priced bohemia, the other a home to hardship, its residents pushed to the edges of their time-honored turf. When a cocky young hipster is shot by a street kid from the \"other\" Lower East Side, the crime ripples through every stratum of the city in this brilliant and kaleidoscopic portrait of the \"new\" New York, from one of our finest American authors.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102489907423,"sku":"9781250398215","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/8E5EpnJ2zN9781250398215.webp?v=1781083353"},{"product_id":"freedomland-paperback","title":"Freedomland - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe celebrated author of \u003ci\u003eClockers\u003c\/i\u003e delivers his most compelling and accomplished novel to date. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA white woman, her hands gashed and bloody, stumbles into an inner-city emergency room and announces that she has just been carjacked by a black man. But then comes the horrifying twist: Her young son was asleep in the back seat, and he has now disappeared into the night. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo begins Richard Price's electrifying new novel, a tale set on the same turf--Dempsey, New Jersey--as \u003ci\u003eClockers.\u003c\/i\u003e Assigned to investigate the case of Brenda Martin's missing child is detective Lorenzo Council, a local son of the very housing project targeted as the scene of the crime. Under a white-hot media glare, Lorenzo launches an all-out search for the abducted boy, even as he quietly explores a different possibility: Does Brenda Martin know a lot more about her son's disappearance than she's admitting? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRight behind Lorenzo is Jesse Haus, an ambitious young reporter from the city's evening paper. Almost immediately, Jesse suspects Brenda of hiding something. Relentlessly, she works her way into the distraught mother's fragile world, befriending her even as she looks for the chance to break the biggest story of her career. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the search for the alleged carjacker intensifies, so does the simmering racial tension between Dempsey and its mostly white neighbor, Gannon. And when the Gannon police arrest a black man from Dempsey and declare him a suspect, the animosity between the two cities threatens to boil over into violence. With the media swarming and the mood turning increasingly ugly, Lorenzo must take desperate measures to get to the bottom of Brenda Martin's story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt once a suspenseful mystery and a brilliant portrait of two cities locked in a death-grip of explosive rage, \u003ci\u003eFreedomland\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the heart of the urban American experience--dislocated, furious, yearning--as never before. Richard Price has created a vibrant, gut-wrenching masterpiece whose images will remain long after the final, devastating pages.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe celebrated author of \"Clockers delivers his most compelling and accomplished novel to date. \u003cbr\u003eA white woman, her hands gashed and bloody, stumbles into an inner-city emergency room and announces that she has just been carjacked by a black man. But then comes the horrifying twist: Her young son was asleep in the back seat, and he has now disappeared into the night. \u003cbr\u003eSo begins Richard Price's electrifying new novel, a tale set on the same turf--Dempsey, New Jersey--as \"Clockers. Assigned to investigate the case of Brenda Martin's missing child is detective Lorenzo Council, a local son of the very housing project targeted as the scene of the crime. Under a white-hot media glare, Lorenzo launches an all-out search for the abducted boy, even as he quietly explores a different possibility: Does Brenda Martin know a lot more about her son's disappearance than she's admitting? \u003cbr\u003eRight behind Lorenzo is Jesse Haus, an ambitious young reporter from the city's evening paper. Almost immediately, Jesse suspects Brenda of hiding something. Relentlessly, she works her way into the distraught mother's fragile world, befriending her even as she looks for the chance to break the biggest story of her career. \u003cbr\u003eAs the search for the alleged carjacker intensifies, so does the simmering racial tension between Dempsey and its mostly white neighbor, Gannon. And when the Gannon police arrest a black man from Dempsey and declare him a suspect, the animosity between the two cities threatens to boil over into violence. With the media swarming and the mood turning increasingly ugly, Lorenzo must take desperate measures to get to the bottom of Brenda Martin's story. \u003cbr\u003eAt once a suspenseful mystery anda brilliant portrait of two cities locked in a death-grip of explosive rage, \"Freedomland reveals the heart of the urban American experience--dislocated, furious, yearning--as never before. 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