The Resource Ride around shining : a novel, Chris Leslie-Hynan
Ride around shining : a novel, Chris Leslie-Hynan
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The item Ride around shining : a novel, Chris Leslie-Hynan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Dallas Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- "A provocative debut novel about a young white chauffeur and his wealthy black employer, an NBA player--a twenty-first century inversion of what we've come to expect stories of race and class to look like, and a discomfiting portrait of envy and obsession. 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 Trail Blazer named Calyph West and his young wife, Antonia. Calyph is black and 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 The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Great Gatsby, 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 tries to say the unsayable about white fixation on black culture, particularly black athletic culture, something so common in everyday life it has gone all but unaddressed"--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Ride around shining : a novel
- Title
- Ride around shining
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Chris Leslie-Hynan
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A provocative debut novel about a young white chauffeur and his wealthy black employer, an NBA player--a twenty-first century inversion of what we've come to expect stories of race and class to look like, and a discomfiting portrait of envy and obsession. 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 Trail Blazer named Calyph West and his young wife, Antonia. Calyph is black and 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 The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Great Gatsby, 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 tries to say the unsayable about white fixation on black culture, particularly black athletic culture, something so common in everyday life it has gone all but unaddressed"--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- TXB
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Leslie-Hynan, Chris
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3612.E816
- LC item number
- R53 2014
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Chauffeurs
- African American basketball players
- Race relations
- Rich people
- Psychological fiction
- CULTURAL HERITAGE / African
- CULTURAL HERITAGE / African American
- Label
- Ride around shining : a novel, Chris Leslie-Hynan
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 226 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062285072
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)884989728
- 2046933
- (OCoLC)884989728
- 2022563
- (OCoLC)884989728
- (OCoLC)ocn884989728
- 2022563
- (OCoLC)ocn884989728
- 2046933
- Label
- Ride around shining : a novel, Chris Leslie-Hynan
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 226 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062285072
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)884989728
- 2046933
- (OCoLC)884989728
- 2022563
- (OCoLC)884989728
- (OCoLC)ocn884989728
- 2022563
- (OCoLC)ocn884989728
- 2046933
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