Richard Price (born October 12, 1949) is an American novelist and screenwriter, known for the books The Wanderers (1974), Clockers (1992) and Lush Life (2008). Price's novels explore late-20th century urban America in a gritty, realistic manner that has brought him considerable literary acclaim. Several of his novels are set in a fictional northern New Jersey city called Dempsy. Price's first novel was The Wanderers (1974), a coming-of-age story set in the Bronx in 1962, written when Price was 24 years old. It was adapted into a film in 1979, with a screenplay by Rose Kaufman and Philip Kaufman and directed by the latter. Clockers (1992) was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It has been praised for its humor, suspense, dialogue, and character development. In 1995, it served as the basis for a film directed by Spike Lee; Price and Lee shared writing credits for the screenplay. In his review of Price's novel Lush Life (2008), Walter Kirn compared Price to Raymond Chandler and Saul Bellow.[3] In July 2010, a group art show inspired by Lush Life was held in nine galleries in New York City.[4]
My Opinion: I read "the Whites" written under a pseudonym Richard Price as a book club offering. I found it very difficult to follow and thought the format was a copy of Joseph Wambaugh's style of storytelling without the gift of clarity.
I may try another of his books, but not right now.
The Wanderers (1974)
Bloodbrothers (1976)
Ladies' Man (1978)
The Breaks (1983)
Clockers (1992)
Freedomland (1998)
Samaritan (2003)
Lush Life (2008)
The Whites (2015) (as Harry Brandt)[9] X
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