Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller in East Hampton,Good Life is Richard Prince’s book on books. He photographs someone else’s collection of books on design, photography, cooking, fashion, and interior design against a changing background of his own artwork, publicity stills, paperbacks, first editions and cds to create “ an almost surreal still life of books, judged by their covers” according to curator John McWhinnie in his introductory essay. He goes on to observe: “Made up almost entirely of non-fiction, the social science fictions these books actually present in photographs, recipes, cocktails, style suggestions and autobiographical anecdotes are complemented by the darker tales of fiction that appear in Good Life: The Great Gatsby, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Godfather….just beneath the covers of these books dreaming a perfect life, there are no infinity pools or houses with a view, without a dreaming in-law, outlaw, girlfriend, gag writer or straight man whose dreams are broken, lost, hopeless, vanquished and deferred.”