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Lazarus Man

A Novel

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Lazarus Man

By: Richard Price
Narrated by: Robb Moreira
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Long-listed, Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year, 2024

In this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of Clockers and a writer on The Wire, gives us razor-sharp anatomy of an ever-changing Harlem.

East 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.

In Lazarus Man, 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.

Anthony 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.

Felix 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.

Royal 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.

And 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.

Price, the bestselling author of Lush Life and, most recently, The Whites, has created a bravura portrait of a community on the edge of disintegration. Rich with indelible characters and high drama, Lazarus Man is a riveting work of suspense and social vision by one of our major writers.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

©2024 Richard Price (P)2024 Macmillan Audio
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"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)

"Richard Price has long been lauded as an expert observer of urban life in the United States. Lazarus Man, a streetwise story of a small group of New Yorkers brought together unexpectedly by tragedy and the quest for redemption, will only enhance that reputation . . . With his keen eye, efficiently constructed scenes, and, above all, crisp dialogue . . . [Price] follows the lives of these world-weary characters over the course of roughly 10 days, while artfully revealing the elements of their pasts that have brought them to this singular moment.”—Harvey Freedenberg, Shelf Awareness

"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

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The message was great

This was an excellent lesson & I love the path the author brought us to get there.

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I would have liked Anthony to be the real deal. But this book is not about happy endings.

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Compelling topic!

The characters were nicely developed in the novel, and were intertwined effectively. However, the in the audio book, the scene changes were hard to detect, due to the lack of pauses between scenes. I rewound several times to ensure I recognized the different characters from the previous section. The actors however, portrayed an authentic NYC vibe!

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Did not hold together

I tried, I really tried.. I wanted to but could not adapt to his writing style . After 8 hours, I could not listen to any more .. wish I had read more about the author before I bought the book .. I appreciate what he’s trying to do, but it just not for me ..

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A sordid and sad tale

After about 3 hours of listening I decided to not subject myself to any more. Perhaps there is some redemption later in the book but, for me, it isn’t worth wading through the muck to find out. These are a group of narcissistic characters who are mostly unable to interact as mature humans. Most of their interactions are confrontational. It is a pathetic commentary on our society.

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