Lazarus Man

‘An affecting novel by a literary urbanologist in top form’ * Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) *
‘Price delivers a remarkable excavation of urban angst in this story of a five-story East Harlem tenement building that collapses … As [Price’s] vivid characters cross paths following the tragedy, they compose a searing snapshot of contemporary Harlem annotated with the author’s precise observations … Price once again proves he’s the bard of New York City street life’ * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *
‘All of Richard Price’s manifold gifts - the voices he can do, those of the street, those of the fuzz; his panoramic plotting; his kinetic prose - these things are steeped, in Lazarus Man, in a new kind of hard-won wisdom that’s very mellow and very sweet. His people not only break your heart, they hand you back the pieces so you can peer within and know yourself a little better’ * Jonathan Lethem *
‘Richard Price is our peerless dramatizer of the contemporary urban underbelly, reminding us that the beating heart of a city lies within the collective hearts of the denizens shuffling through their demanding lives …’ * Booklist *
‘For newcomers to Price, Clockers or Lush Life may be a better entry point, but if you stick with Lazarus Man and allow the characters to settle, you’ll find more warmth, cynicism and love of life - every kind of life - here than in many novels twice the size’ * The Times *
‘Both a hymn to community, and a love letter to the city’ * The i paper *
‘The Big Apple has had fewer better chroniclers than Price, and his trademark mix of deft social vignettes and vivid colloquial language makes for an engrossing read’ * Mail on Sunday *
‘An atmospheric novel with the trappings of crime fiction’ * Spectator *
‘Price, a writer on TV’s The Wire, specialises in tales of working class New Yorkers trying to survive, and this is gritty and compelling stuff’ * The Sun *
‘For a nation riven and terrified, Lazarus Man is the strangest of urban thrillers: a thoughtful, even peaceful story about stumbling into new life … the novel remains in relentless motion’ * Ron Charles, Washington Post *
‘Gritty and compassionate … [Price] has an ear for streetwise dialogue and an eye for description … A chorus of voices enlivens every page in a kind of urban opera’ * Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times *

Richard Price 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 has also written screenplays for television dramas such as The Wire, The Outsider, The Night Of, and The Deuce. For writing The Color of Money (1986), a feature film directed by Martin Scorsese and based on the 1984 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis, Price received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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