{"product_id":"lush-life-a-novel-9780374299255","title":"Lush Life: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eSo  what do you do?\" Whenever people asked him  Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist  actor  screenwriter . . . But now hes thirty-five years old and hes still living on the Lower East Side  still in the restaurant business  still serving the people he 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 wouldnt say tending bar. He was going places--until two street kids stepped up to him and Eric one night and pulled a gun. At least  thats Erics 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 Xray 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).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45953287651381,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374299250","price":21.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374299255.jpg?v=1788184144","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/lush-life-a-novel-9780374299255","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}