Lush Life is a collection of short stories that range from the adventures and creative play of girls dreaming in 1970s Brooklyn to the wanderings and aspirations of a poet in the fairylike forests of Finland. These stories will appeal to adult readers of all ages and gender that enjoy New York City stories as well as stories that capture the adventures and aspirations of dreamers and drifters, poets, artists, and near-do-wells wandering or at play in Brooklyn, Spain and Italy, and even as far away as the foggy forests of Finland.
Still living on the Lower East Side and waiting tables, thirty-five-year-old Eric Cash has every reason to be jealous of Ike Marcus, an ambitious young man on the way to the top, until he is supposedly gunned down by street thugs while ...
A delightfully bawdy and wickedly raucous "autobiography" of Tallulah Morehead, a 103-year-old movie star who was once a sex-crazed, drunken starlet, details her many escapades, rivals, sexual exploits, battles, addictions, and movie roles.
A Hedonist's Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life--Alcohol Free Amanda Eyre Ward, Jardine Libaire ... Many years ago , Jardine stopped in to visit Lizzie , a friend who saved up money and moved into a Miami motel for ...
This whimsical, funky book from Raj Haldar (aka rapper Lushlife) turns the traditional idea of an alphabet book on its head, poking fun at the most mischievous words in the English language and demonstrating how to pronounce them.
At least, that's Eric's version. In Lush Life, Richard Price tears the shiny veneer off the 'new' New York to show us the hidden cracks, the underground networks of control and violence beneath the glamour.
Natasha Friend is a Judy Blume for today -- clearly evident in this remarkable new novel about a girl whose father is an alcoholic and how she and her family learn to deal with his condition.It's hard to be a 13-year-old girl.
Lush Life, David Hajdu's sensitive and moving biography of Strayhorn, is a corrective to decades of patchwork scholarship and journalism about this giant of jazz.
"The glory of this volume is the long title poem, which carries the primal vision of Hart Crane into a future that does not surrender the young poet’s love of the real," writes Harold Bloom.
By that time Black & Blues had completely broken up, so Brian and I decided to work with Ron Carter, Hubert Laws, and Bernard Purdie. We knew Purdie because he played with King Curtis, and King Curtis played with Aretha.
Perfect Binding Edition.This unprecedented, revolutionary collection of jazz standards progressions includes all harmonic progressions with full harmonic analysis, chords, chord-scales and arrows & brackets analysis.Every Jazz Standard ...