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"East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble ... As the city's rescue services and media outlets respond, the surrounding neighborhood descends into chaos. By day's end, six bodies have been recovered but many of the other tenants are missing. In La...

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Main Author: Price, Richard, 1949- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
Edition:First edition.
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Building failures > Fiction.
Life change events > Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
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Summary:"East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble ... As the city's rescue services and media outlets respond, the surrounding neighborhood descends into chaos. By day's end, six bodies have been recovered but many of the other tenants are missing. In Lazarus Man, Richard Price ... creates intertwining portraits of a group of compelling and singular characters whose lives are permanently affected by the disaster"--
Physical Description:339 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9780374168155
0374168156
Author Notes:Richard Price is the author of nine previous novels--including Clockers and Lush Life --all of which have won universal praise for their vividly etched portrayals of urban America. He has written for television dramas, including The Night Of , The Deuce , and The Wire , as well as numerous screenplays, including Sea of Love , Ransom , and The Color of Money , directed by Martin Scorsese, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, the novelist Lorraine Adams.

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