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001 2014501697
003 DLC
005 20150428084631.0
008 150401t20142014nyu 000 1 eng d
010 $a 2014501697
020 $a9780062285072 (hardcover)
020 $a0062285076 (hardcover)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn884989728
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042 $alccopycat
050 00 $aPS3612.E816$bR53 2014
082 04 $a813/.6$223
100 1 $aLeslie-Hynan, Chris,$eauthor.
245 10 $aRide around shining :$ba novel /$cChris Leslie-Hynan.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bHarper,$c[2014]
264 4 $c©2014
300 $a226 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Ride Around Shining concerns the idle preoccupations, and later machinations, of a transplanted Portlander named Jess--a nobody from nowhere with a Master's degree and a gig delivering takeout. He parlays the latter, along with a few lies, into a job as a chauffeur for an up-and-coming NBA small forward, a Trail Blazer named Calyph West, and his young wife, Antonia. Calyph is black, Antonia is white, and Jess becomes fascinated, innocuously at first, by all they are that he is not. In striving to make himself indispensable to them, he causes Calyph to have a season-ending knee injury, then brings about the couple's estrangement, before positioning himself at last as their perverse savior. In the tradition of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley and Harold Pinter's The Servant--not to mention a certain Shakespeare play about a creepy white dude obsessed with a black dude--Ride Around Shining is a striking, propulsive debut that is by turns hilarious and discomfiting, moody and thrilling, and which asks unforgettable questions about the modern tensions of race and class in America"--Jacket flap.
650 0 $aChauffeurs$vFiction.
650 0 $aAfrican American basketball players$vFiction.
650 0 $aRace relations$vFiction.
650 0 $aRich people$vFiction.
655 0 $aPsychological fiction.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1507/2014501697-b.html