Passing (Paperback)

"Absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable." -- Alice Walker
"A work so fine, sensitive, and distinguished that it rises above race categories and becomes that rare object, a good novel." -- "The Saturday Review of Literature
"Married to a successful physician and prominently ensconced in Harlem's vibrant society of the 1920s, Irene Redfield leads a charmed existence-until she is shaken out of it by a chance encounter with a childhood friend who has been "passing for white." An important figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen was the first African-American woman to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. Her fictional portraits of women seeking their identities through a fog of racial confusion were informed by her own Danish-West Indian parentage, and "Passing" offers fascinating psychological insights into issues of race and gender.

General

Imprint:	Dover Publications Inc.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2004
First published:	October 2004
Authors:	Nella Larsen
Dimensions:	214 x 139 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	94
ISBN-13:	978-0-486-43713-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-486-43713-2
Barcode:	9780486437132

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