Book Review: Richard Price returns with another portrait of urban America, ‘Lazarus Man’
Is there a better writer of urban American stories than Richard Price? His resume is hart to beat: To episodes of HBO’s “The Wire,” and “The Night Of,” and novels like “Clockers,” “Lush Life,” and “Freedomland,” fans can now add “Lazarus Man.” The story opens with a boom, literally. A five-story tenement in East Harlem…