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An edition of Samaritan (2003)

Samaritan

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.

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Samaritan
2003, Thorndike Press
in English
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Samaritan
2003, Howes
in English - Large print ed.
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Samaritan
2003, Bloomsbury
in English
Cover of: Samaritan
Samaritan
2003, Alfred A. Knopf
in English - 1st ed.
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Samaritan
2003, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Cover of: Samaritan
Samaritan
2003, Knopf, distributed by Random House
in English - 1st ed.

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OL24266450M
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9781400040636
OCLC/WorldCat
607679930
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914EB905-2090-4F59-8EBC-B27DE31F266C

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August 4, 2012 Edited by VacuumBot Updated format 'electronic resource' to 'Electronic resource'
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June 17, 2010 Created by ImportBot Imported from marc_overdrive MARC record