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Samaritan

by Richard Price

ISBN: 0375411151
ISBN-13: 9780375411151
Format: Hardcover

Summary

Dempsy, New Jersey, is right across the river from New York City, and Ray Mitchell has returned there-his home town-from Los Angeles, where he has made a bundle as a screenwriter. Ray is white, and when he is attacked and badly beaten, Nerese Ammons, a black police detective, takes the case, even though she is close to early retirement. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.

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"The mastery of urban melodrama that Price demonstrated in literate blockbusters like CLOCKERS and FREEDOMLAND keeps growing and deepening....Magnificent stuff."

   -- Kirkus

"Price portrays Mitchell's anxious desire to connect with dead-on, heartbreaking accuracy...."    -- Kera Bolonik

   -- Bookforum

"SAMARITAN is a perplexing read, especially for those who, like me, consider Richard Price a major talent. The Dempsiads, for all their strength, are losing steam."    -- Mark Costello

   -- New York Times Book Review

"...Price yields up not just the familiar, blanched moonscape of urban blight but the inner lives and jack-hammering hearts of those who pace and patrol it."

   -- New Yorker

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 2003
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6.67 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.65 pounds
Pages: 377

Publisher's Notes

After a lucrative television writing career comes to an abrupt end, ex–high school teacher Ray Mitchell returns to the New Jersey city of his birth—to rethink his life, reconnect with his teenage daughter and to spread the wealth on the housing project that reared him. He begins teaching again, embarks on an affair with a married woman from the old neighborhood and becomes a mentor to a former student recently released from jail.

Then, disaster: he is found beaten nearly to death in his own apartment. He knows who did it, but he’s not talking, and he refuses to press charges.

It is up to Detective Nerese Ammons—a childhood acquaintance from the projects—to get Ray to tell her what happened.

Alternating between investigations of the people in Ray’s life most likely to do him harm and listening to his fevered ramblings about their shared past as he slips in and out of consciousness, Nerese is charged not only with uncovering the perpetrator of this assault but with understanding what kind of victim is more afraid of
the truth than of his potential murderer.

The Washington Post Book World has hailed Richard Price as having “the best equipment a novelist can have—that combination of muscularity, insight and compassion we might call heart.” Samaritan is an electrifying story of crime and punishment, of character and place, of children and their keepers—a novel of literary suspense that explores what happens when, caught up in the drama of one’s own generosity, too little is given, too little is understood and the results threaten to prove both tragic and deadly.

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