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Zusatztext "A smart! sad! funny! beautifully voiced! and precisely detailed investigation of the particularly American collision of race! sex! money! and vicariousness." Informationen zum Autor Chris Leslie-Hynan is originally from Wisconsin and received his MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2008. He lives in Portland. This is his first book. Klappentext Ride Around Shining is the story of an aimless white guy who lies his way into the world of black basketball players, bathing in their reflected glory until his adoration turns to envy and destruction. Despite a history of accidents, Jess lands 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. But 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. Zusammenfassung Longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction 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. ...
