Playing in the Dark Format:Hardcover ”—Claudia Rankine

”—Claudia Rankine

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Chris opens up about life beyond basketball and the role his grandfather played in molding him into the man and father he is today

FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS’ TRUST SHAUGNESSY COHEN PRIZE

Playing in the Dark Format:Hardcover ”—Claudia RankineAn immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on raceand promises to change the way we read American literaturefrom the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfreeand that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires.