Samaritan: A Novel
Richard Price
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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.
A limited number of autographed copies are available for purchase.
Alfred A. Knopf, $25.00, Hardcover
