books by Richard Price

books by Richard Price

books:

Richard Price

Nick Cave, Richard Price, ...

Phaidon Press Inc., 2008

Nan Goldin's Magnum Opus
DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND is a lap-heavy, huge tome of the creative photographs of Nan Goldin, many of which have never before been published. Goldin is know throughout the museums of the world as a photographer who knows no barriers for her subject matter: AIDS victims, ...

Freedomland

Richard Price

Delta, 2005

Price novices, Start here (I'm guessing)
I've never read anything by Richard Price before and I was enthralled by this book. I'm usually a pretty slow reader, but I knocked back about 200 pages a day. I could not put this book down. I cancelled (or reluctantly attended) social engagements because of this ...

Samaritan

Richard Price

Vintage, 2004

This is the third of his - - -
- - that I picked up. The first was excellent, the second even better. And, now, I'm only on page 28.... that's all.... and this, I can tell already, is another amazing piece'o'work! So damned BELIEVABLE.... Richard Price is an extraordinary talent. And, now, if ...

Blood Brothers

Richard Price

Mariner Books, 1999

I don't know how he does it but...
Richard Price is one of my favorite authors, and I have read all of his novels. This is by far my most favorite (and it was the last one I read!). This story really hit home with me...Stony has to chose between doing what he loves for s*** pay, or have a well-paying ...

Clockers: A Novel

Richard Price

Picador, 2008

Brilliant, mind blowing and extremely well researched
Richard Price first came up with the idea for Clockers whilst sat in a fast food restaurant in New York, during the waning years of what later became known as The Crack Epidemic. Whilst he observed overworked teenage kids sweating behind the counter for minimum wage ...

Mad Libs- Who Moved My Cubicle (Mad Libs)

Richard Price, Leonard Stern

Chamberlain Bros., 2006

Mad Libs in the Office
I purchased this for a co-worker's birthday and we are still playing versions of it in the breakroom at lunch. A great distraction that brings humor to the workweek!

The Wanderers

Richard Price

Mariner Books, 1999

Gangs Back In the Day
I first read this book not long after it came out in the 70s, when I was barely a teenager (if even that, I don't recall the exact year) and it quickly became one of my favorite books. Since then, Richard Price has gone on to write many more novels, a few of which ...

The Future of Spacetime

Stephen William Hawking, Kip S. Thorne, ...

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

Is time-travel possible?
----------------------------------------------------------- This slim volume consists of six essays, based on talks presented at the Kipfest [note 1] on the occasion of Kip Thorne's sixtieth birthday. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Physics at Caltech is best known ...

Lush Life: A Novel

Richard Price

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

The Price is Right
Richard Price is as good of a dialogue writer as exists today in my mind. "Lush Life" is his latest novel that brilliantly showcases his skills and keen knowledge and insights of city life, particularly NYC life. Other reviewers have already covered the plot so I ...

Transgender Rights

Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2006

The Transgender Movement as social movement
This volume of essays conceives transgender as a global social movement for rights, including discussions of law, politics and economics. It is academic in tone, but much of it is accessible to a lay audience. While its essays are wide-ranging, covering such diverse ...

Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension

Sally Price, Richard Price

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006

No serious academic library American Art History collection can be considered complete or comprehensive without
"Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension", co-authored by Sally Price and her husband Richard (both of whom are professor of American Studies, Anthropology, and History at the College of William and Mary in Virginia) showcases the life and work of the African American ...

The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective

Sidney W. Mintz, Richard Price

Beacon Press, 1992

Old Wine/New Bottle? Depolarizing African-American Culture
'The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective' is an early 1970s reaction to the `swift' establishment of Afro-American and Black Studies programmes within the U.S. American Universities, in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement. Its ...

Requiem for a Dream: A Novel

Hubert Selby

Thunder's Mouth Press, 1999

Prepare yourself before you read
You need to be ready before you read this book. Upon finishing this little dandy I was physically shaking. I can't think of any other book that has made of shake. The manic style and never ending punch in the face flow of this Hubert Selby Jr. masterpiece will stay ...

Revolutionary Road, The Easter Parade, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Richard Yates

Everyman's Library, 2009

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Three classic works?including the virtuosic Revolutionary Road, soon to be a major motion picture?that exemplify the remarkable gifts of this great American master. Richard Yates?s first novel, Revolutionary Road is the unforgettable portrait of a marriage built on dreams that tragically never come to fruition. ...

Glycemic Matrix Guide to Low GI and GL Eating
Richard A. Price

Infinity Publishing, 2008

The Glycemic Matrix combines the glycemic index with glycemic density (glycemic load in a gram of food). This maximizes hunger satisfaction while minimizing glycemic impact! The glycemic index measures how rapidly carbohydrate foods are digested, converted to glucose, and cause blood sugars to rise. Lower glycemic index foods satisfy hunger for a ...