Samaritans edition by Jonathan Lynn Literature Fiction eBooks
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‘Jonathan Lynn, already a comedy legend, has reinforced his storied reputation with this coruscating, wrathful, passionate, hilarious and astonishingly timely novel’ – Stephen Fry
Samaritans Medical Center, Washington DC, can't seem to look after itself and its increasingly desperate doctors, let alone its patients.
The chairman of the board, billionaire arms dealer and part-time philanthropist David Soper, decides that it's time to kill or cure.
Business School alumnus and Las Vegas hotel genius Max Green is the perfect man for the job. A man of vision. A man with a mission. A man who knows that wealth-care is smarter than healthcare.
He's going to make Samaritans great again.
Andrew Sharp, star cardio-thoracic surgeon, turns his back on the NHS and buys in to this brave new world of Porsches and payola. But when his American Dream turns into a living nightmare, Andrew discovers that even the new-found love of his assistant, Cathy, may not be enough to save him…
Samaritans is the new novel from the co-creator and writer of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.
Praise for Samaritans
'A book George Orwell would have approved of.' The Sunday Times
‘It’s wonderful! I was hooked, mouth open, heart pounding. The catastrophic state of medical care is his story but Samaritans can be read too as a wider allegory, a discourse on a politics of greed, dis-entitlement, deregulation and social brutality that has run quite mad.’ Stephen Fry
‘It is with the highest confidence that I recommend this book, with particularity, to those Members of Congress who remain committed to making access to life saving care far too difficult for far too many people. It is my fondest hope that they might laugh their way to the education they so sorely require.’ Rick Ungar
‘Jonathan Lynn tackles the US healthcare system in satirical splendour. I laughed out loud. It is both hilarious and scary at the same time! Nobody does it better.’ Barbara Broccoli
'There is reason to believe Jonathan Lynn was not born in the US and, while probably not a spy, he has spent some little time observing Americans in the wild. His observations are not always flattering—he’s talking Big Medicine, Big Insurance, Big Business and their cousin, Small Ethics—but he certainly seems to have our number. Samaritans is smart, dark, and very, very funny. Stay healthy, America!' Michael McKean, Better Call Saul, Spinal Tap
‘Jonathan Lynn's Samaritans does for hospitals what Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One did for cemeteries. The book is laugh-aloud funny, but also deadly serious--because it deals with the lethal effect profit-minded health care can have on patient lives...I haven't read satire this hilarious and powerful since Riotous Assembly, the late Tom Sharpe's indictment of apartheid in South Africa. This is essential reading for anyone who has a body and wants to keep it alive.' M.G Lord
‘Comedy genius...as politically and socially important as is it is entertaining.’ Muriel Gray
Jonathan Lynn is the multi-award winning author of The Complete Yes Minister and The Complete Yes, Prime Minister, which were drawn from the phenomenally successful BBC series which he created and wrote with Antony Jay, and which sold more than a million copies in hardback. They have been translated into numerous languages and are still in print nearly 30 years later. Other writing a novel Mayday, the play The Patriotic Traitor and a memoir Comedy Rules. His films as director include Clue, Nuns on the Run (both of which he wrote), My Cousin Vinny, The Distinguished Gentleman and The Whole Nine Yards. Numerous writingawards include a BAFTA and a Special Award from the Campaign For Freedom of Information.
Samaritans edition by Jonathan Lynn Literature Fiction eBooks
Given the extraordinarily complicated and often grim circumstances that have become the hallmark of the American healthcare system, I would not have thought it possible to find comedy in what is so often nothing less than calamity. But that was before I was treated to Jonathan Lynn’s satirical and remarkably revealing exposé of the twisted pretzel that is American healthcare. It is with the highest confidence that I recommend this book, with particularity, to those Members of Congress who remain committed to making access to life saving care far too difficult for far too many people. It is my fondest hope that they might laugh their way to the education they so sorely require.Product details
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Samaritans edition by Jonathan Lynn Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This book is hilarious and terrifying at the same time!!! You will never look at your health care provider or hospital the same way. It's also sexy and crazy!! A wonderful read!!!
Very smart writer. Informative and well written. Enjoyed it very much. Matt Solomon
The story, like in "Animal Farm" is a fable of a sick system. In this case, it's the healthcare system that's sick. I hope that in reality there are not many people in our U.S. system that are a sick as Max, the CEO of Samaritan, but there are reasons to wonder.
SAMARITANS is hysterical and terrifying. Jonathan Lynn’s new novel is filled with great laughs, wonderful characters, and a shocking indictment of America’s healthcare system. The co-creator of Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, director of many films, including My Cousin Vinny, Nuns on the Run, and The Whole Nine Yards, and the author of the essential Comedy Rules, Jonathan Lynn is a legend and SAMARITANS is a terrific book.
Jonathan Lynn’s Samaritans is an enjoyable, easy read, but do not mistake the laugh out loud storyline as simple slapstick. With his finely honed satirical wit and agile “pen”, Jonathan Lynn skewers the American healthcare system with surgical precision, and has crafted a story that cuts frighteningly close to the bone.
Jonathan Lynn's Samaritans does for hospitals what Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One did for cemeteries. The book is laugh-aloud funny, but also deadly serious--because it deals with the lethal effect profit-minded health care can have on patient lives.
Lynn's protagonist is Max Green, a Vegas casino manager who decides he can bring in more money running a hospital. And he sort of does--by making choices that show he has even less empathy than the current US President.
I haven't read satire this hilarious and powerful since Riotous Assembly, the late Tom Sharpe's indictment of apartheid in South Africa. This is essential reading for anyone who has a body and wants to keep it alive.
M. G. Lord, Assistant Professor of English (Practice) at the University of Southern California; author of Forever Barbie and The Accidental Feminist.
Minister Hacker Bernard, I want to make to make one thing perfectly clear. Jonathan Lynn is not God.
Bernard Will you tell his fans, or shall I?
Why did I not laugh as hard as I wanted to when I read this gem from one of our greatest living comedy writers? Because I lived it, that's why! Deviated septum and blocked sinus surgery $60,000! (And that was twelve years ago). Two years looking for a surgeon to fix my hiatal hernia for less than the cost of a new Mercedes (I eventually got taken as a charity case at Methodist in Houston. Still not sure how that happened, or I'd tell you how to do it). And I'm not that old, that's the really scary part.
Read it, weep, laugh, and then do something. Preferably something involving pitchforks. Maybe it's time to activate THEIR medical plans...
Given the extraordinarily complicated and often grim circumstances that have become the hallmark of the American healthcare system, I would not have thought it possible to find comedy in what is so often nothing less than calamity. But that was before I was treated to Jonathan Lynn’s satirical and remarkably revealing exposé of the twisted pretzel that is American healthcare. It is with the highest confidence that I recommend this book, with particularity, to those Members of Congress who remain committed to making access to life saving care far too difficult for far too many people. It is my fondest hope that they might laugh their way to the education they so sorely require.
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