Short-a-Day: Thomas McGuane's "The Good Samaritan" by Aaron Riccio

Originally published in The New Yorker, April 25, 2011. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 90.What makes someone good? Barney, a temporary ranch-hand hired by an accidentally injured Szabo, is an efficient, respectable man who silently inserts himself into taking care of the work assigned him, slowly branching out to a brief affair with Szabo's somewhat lonely mother, and even going so far as to visit Szabo's fe…

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