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Samaritan

Written by Richard Price

Narrated by Michael Boatman

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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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.


From the Hardcover edition.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJan 7, 2003
ISBN9780739302187
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Samaritan
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Richard Price

RICHARD PRICE has written extensively on the history and culture of African Americans throughout the hemisphere. His prize-winning books include First-Time, Alabi’s World, The Convict and the Colonel, Travels with Tooy, and Rainforest Warriors. He is the coauthor, with Sally Price, of Saamaka Dreaming. He lives on Coquina Key, Florida.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is a very good read.Clever and original Keeps you reading. Ray who is a writes for TV moves back to New Jersey to give something back. He helps children write. He gets attacked in his house, his old school friend Nerese a retiring Police woman investigates. Ray is very reluctant to talk but after a while Nerese works it out. Lots of interesting characters in this book.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Ray Mitchell grew up in public housing in Richard Price’s fictional city of Dempsy, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from New York City. After a stint as an English teacher, then as a cocaine-addled cab driver he worked for a former student as a television writer in L.A. When that’s over he returns to New Jersey, teaches a class at his old school, and tries to help a few of the people that now live where he used to.Ray’s story is one of guilt and unintended consequences. He truly wants to help the downtrodden, but his motives are questioned. Ray’s teenage daughter lives with his ex-wife in New York but guilt overwhelms his relationship with her too.Ray really is a good guy and tries to do right, but with Samaritan Price seems to be saying that you can’t always help those that need help, and sometimes it’s best not to try. But I think he’s thankful there are people like Ray Mitchell that don’t realize it.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Innner city story of the clash between black street culture and a middle classs white guy. Convincing.