{"product_id":"9780062285089","title":"Ride Around Shining","description":"By: Chris Leslie-Hynan     \u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRide Around Shining\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalyph 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of \u003cem\u003eThe Talented Mr. Ripley, The Great Gatsby\u003c\/em\u003e, and Harold Pinter’s \u003cem\u003eThe Servant\u003c\/em\u003e—not to mention a certain Shakespeare play about a creepy white dude obsessed with a black dude—\u003cem\u003eRide Around Shining\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":48125578019043,"sku":"DTRHCUS-9780062285089","price":93.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9780062285089.jpg?v=1770734480","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/en-mo\/products\/9780062285089","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}