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Samaritan by Richard Price (2004, Paperback, Reprint) 
Samaritan by Richard Price (2004, Paperback, Reprint)

 
Samaritan by Richard Price (2004, Paperback, Reprint)

Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 2004-06-01
Series: Vintage
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 037572513X
ISBN-13: 9780375725135
Product ID: EPID30210311
Description: 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,...
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Synopsis
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.

Details
Publication Date:2004-06-01
Series:Vintage
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Length:377 pages
Height:8.0 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:10.4 oz

Publisher's Note
Ray Mitchell, a former TV writer who has left Hollywood under a cloud, returns to urban Dempsy, New Jersey, hoping to make a difference in the lives of his struggling neighbors. Instead, his very public and emotionally suspect generosity gets him beaten nearly to death. Ray refuses to name his assailant, which makes him intensely interesting to Detective Nerese Ammons, a friend from childhood, who now sets out to unlock the secret of his reticence. Set against the intensely realized backdrop of urban America, the cat and mouse game that unfolds is both morally complex and utterly gripping.

Industry Reviews
"The mastery of urban melodrama that Price demonstrated in literate blockbusters like CLOCKERS and FREEDOMLAND keeps growing and deepening....Magnificent stuff."
Kirkus Reviews (11/01/2002)

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

"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."
New York Times Book Review - Mark Costello (01/05/2003)

"...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 (01/20/2003)

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