Word: samaritan
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...equal access to redemption. The Bible tells us that Jesus sought out and loved the thieves, prostitutes and sinners shunned by the “righteous” of his day. His longest conversation with an individual in the Bible is with a sexual sinner many times over, the Samaritan woman in John 4, and he saves the life of an adulteress by telling an angry crowd, “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone...
...Price's fine new book to be one of my pallbearers, I might be O.K. with that. The novel is alive because writers like Price are crafting books like Samaritan (Knopf; 379 pages), about a guy who discovers the hard way what a complicated transaction charity can be. This is the third work that Price has set in Dempsy, his fictional New Jersey town of blue-collar strivers, scuttling young men on the make and always, always, the police. He discovered the book's themes in himself when he was doing the street research about cops and crack dealers...
Eventually, so does Ray Mitchell, the generous but by no means selfless man at the center of Samaritan. At 42, Ray is a successful TV writer who has turned his back on Hollywood and headed home to Jersey, to the housing project where he grew up and the daughter he hasn't seen much of. He volunteers to teach a writing class at his old high school. For Ray, self-appointed sunbeam is a role he warms to right away. Before long, he is recklessly lending big sums to near strangers and gathering twitchy characters under his wing...
When Gerardo comes home with Dr. Roberto Miranda (Sergio Rafael ’05), a good samaritan who helped Gerardo when his car broke down, Paulina recognizes the doctor as her former tormentor. Soon, Miranda is tied in a chair and pleading to be released as Paulina brandishes a gun and attempts to force Miranda to confess...
When Gerardo comes home with Dr. Roberto Miranda (Sergio Rafael ’05), a good samaritan who helped Gerardo when his car broke down, Paulina recognizes the doctor as her former tormentor. Soon, Miranda is tied in a chair and pleading to be released as Paulina brandishes a gun and attempts to force Miranda to confess...