Lush Life is a contemporary social novel by Richard Price.

It is even less of a social novel than is Cricket.

When Price started writing social novels, he relied increasingly on structure in his fiction, rather than on voice or character.

The book is one of the earliest examples of the social novel.

Bandyopadhyay once said that these stories can be thought as and read as social novels only.

He was an author of short stories, novels about the war and also social and historical novels.

The book is a social novel, dealing with Victorian views about sin and illegitimacy.

He mainly wrote social novels based on the Christian community of Kerala.

It was the first purely "social" novel in Russian literature.

It is best on big social novels, on people behaving in groups.