Byline: COLETTE BANCROFT - St. Petersburg Times
"This book began with a place," says Richard Price. "I didn't really have a story."
He found one. The book is "Lush Life" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 464 pages; $26), Price's gripping new best-seller about a murder in New York's Lower East Side.
Writing it involved a kind of "urban archaeology," Price says, an exploration of the neighborhood's history as a densely populated landing place for new immigrants "a place to get out of" and its current status as a gentrified magnet for the young and hip. He built "Lush Life" on its "juxtaposition of tenement buildings and boutiques" and colliding "chaos of cultures."
Place of ghosts
Price lived in the Lower East Side for a while himself, and his family's history there goes back much …
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