Richard Price — Lazarus Man - with David Simon

Watch author Richard Price's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.

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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.

Richard Price is the author of nine previous novels—including Clockers, Freedomland, The Whites, and Lush Life—all of which have won widespread praise for their vividly etched portrayals of urban America. His award-winning writing for television includes The Wire, The Night Of, The Deuce, and The Outsider. His feature film screenplays include Sea of Love, New York Stories, and The Color of Money. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, the novelist Lorraine Adams.

Price is in conversation with David Simon, a Baltimore-based journalist, author, and television producer. A former crime reporter for the Baltimore Sun, he is the creator of the celebrated HBO series The Wire, which depicts the political and socioeconomic fissures in an American city. His other television credits include the NBC drama Homicide and HBO’s The Corner, Generation Kill, Treme, Show Me a Hero, The Deuce, The Plot Against America, and We Own This City. The author of two books of narrative nonfiction, Homicide and The Corner, Simon is a 2010 MacArthur Fellow.

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