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01872aam a2200337 i 4500 001 918E2518C93011E88539171297128E48 003 SILO 005 20181006010511 008 160712t20162016ilu 000 f eng c 010 $a 2016032145 020 $a 0810134179 020 $a 9780810134171 035 $a (OCoLC)948340153 040 $a IEN/DLC $b eng $e rda $c INU $d DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d ORX $d NYP $d IAY $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d IGA $d UIB $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-tx 050 00 $a PS3563.O374 $b S54 2016 082 04 $a 813.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Mojtabai, A. G., $d 1937- $e author. 245 10 $a Shine on me : $b a novel / $c A.G. Mojtabai. 264 1 $a Evanston, Illinois : $b TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a x, 121 pages ; $c 22 cm 500 $a Includes notes. 520 $a The rules are simple enough: "Here's the deal: Whoever keeps his hands longest on one of the dealer's brand new pickup trucks owns it and gets to drive it away." An actual contest hosted by an auto dealership in Texas is the prompt for this fictional exploration, which seeks to probe the depths and shallows of the American soul. To the players vying for this shiny new prize, competition revs up as the hours wear on, positions harden, sightlines narrow, and sleep-deprivation intensifies. At the center is the reporter Trew Reade, struggling to make sense of the event and his own role in it. Early on, he muses that "surface and substance were rarely the same; transparency could be the most cunning of masks." -- Back cover. 650 0 $a Prize contests in advertising $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Competition (Psychology) $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Longview (Tex.) $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006102858.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=918E2518C93011E88539171297128E48 994 $a C0 $b UIBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search