by Richard Price · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747572732
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«Samaritan» is the novel by Richard Price, published by Bloomsbury Publishing in paperback (512 pages, in English).
Ray Mitchell, a successful television screenwriter, returns to Dempsey, New Jersey, intending to give something back to the community where he grew up. His attempt to be a «good man» drags him down dark paths as his wealth stirs tensions in the neighborhood. After ending up hospitalized with a bandaged head, Mitchell knows who attacked him, but keeps silent. Price combines thriller tension with deep characterization.
Novel by Richard Price, also author of Clockers, originally published in 2004.
Recommended for readers of crime fiction and literary fiction with a social backdrop.
Richard Price is an American novelist and screenwriter, known for the books The Wanderers (1974), Clockers (1992) and Lush Life (2008). Price's novels explore late-20th-century urban America in a gritty, realistic manner that has brought him considerable literary acclaim. Several of his novels are set in a fictional northern New Jersey city called Dempsy.
