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Samaritan by Richard Price (2003, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100375411151
ISBN-139780375411151
eBay Product ID (ePID)2292919
Product Key Features
Book TitleSamaritan
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year2003
GenreFiction
AuthorRichard Price
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight26.5 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-069378
Reviews"A whodunit with substance and suspense…Price is known for terrific dialogue, and there are moments when you feel as if you are listening to [his characters] speak, not just reading words on a page…It's the most interesting kind of mysteryone in which the villain is not so easy to spot even when we know who committed the crime." Anne Stephenson, USA Today "Engaging…provocative…Price has a fine ear for the subtle tension between sentimentality and real devotion, and he understands the way that chronic black poverty plays into the needs of 'the selflessly selfish.' If this is a novel that raps the knuckles of a helping hand, it's nonetheless one to grab on to." Ron Charles, The Christian Science Monitor "It's a tribute to Price's originality that [his] characters become as distinct and real as they do…Well-intentioned Ray [is] enigmatic and fresh…Price has a great way with dialogue, [and] a better-developed-than-usual sense of structure. Samaritan unfolds on twin time tracks, [and the] carpentry works…Price's revelation of the culprit is absolutely consistent with his characters and thematically right on the money…Anyone who thinks fiction or literature too small a shelf to include the other stands to learn a lot from Richard Price." David Kipen, San Francisco Chronicle "Giving new meaning to the term "inner city," Price yields up not just the familiar, blanched moonscape of urban blight but the inner lives and jackhammering hearts of those who pace and patrol it." The New Yorker "A dream of a book…a supremely suspenseful novel (with a denouement that will leave you marveling at how artfully the author kept us from guessing the perpetrator's identity), but to call it a thriller would be selling it short. Part police procedural, part high-wire psychodrama, part social study, it's a wholly engrossing hybrid that packs an emotional wallop…." Tom Sinclair, Entertainment Weekly "Dazzling…The perfect pace of a superb storyteller is but one of the gifts Mr. Price brings to Samaritan. Razor-sharp dialogue is another, as well as his urban-poetic descriptive flair. It all makes for an extraordinary novel, with the gritty plot of a hard-edged thriller and the cosmic concerns of a streetcorner Dostoyevsky." Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal "A whodunit only in format, Samaritan is that rarity, a novel of race relations written with authority, panache and heart." Dan Cryer, Newsday "Powerful…Wise…The novel is alive because writers like Price are crafting books like Samaritan, about a guy who discovers the hard way what a complicated transactions charity can be…For all the homework that went into Clockers, Price was never a dealer or a cop. But he has been what Ray is in Samaritan, an intruder in other people's lives. His fellow feeling with this character goes deep. What he knows about Ray you don't learn by researching the streets. Instead, you prowl your own heart. It's one more beat that Price knows how to walk with authority." Richard Lecayo, Time "Without dictating Price's fiction, reality inspires his imagination, provoking a finely detailed and immensely readable inquiry into what might be called the double nature of benevolence…Where a typical crime novel would traffic in sur
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisAfter a lucrative television writing career comes to an abrupt end, exhigh 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. TheWashington Post Book Worldhas hailed Richard Price as having "the best equipment a novelist can have-that combination of muscularity, insight and compassion we might call heart."Samaritanis 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.
LC Classification NumberPS3566.R544A78 2003
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