Passing

CD - unabridged
(4 CDs)
Product Number: CX1732
Released: 01 Apr, 2012
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781407499222
Narrator(s): Robin Miles
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

First published to critical acclaim in 1929, Passing is a remarkable exploration of the shifting racial and sexual boundaries in 1920s New York, and still carries relevance today as a modern classic. Irene Redfield is a woman with an enviable life. She and her successful husband Brian share a comfortable Harlem town house with their sons. But everything changes on the day she encounters a long-lost childhood friend. Clare Kendry- light-skinned, charming and beautiful- tells Irene how she left behind the black neighbourhood of her adolescence and began passing for white, hiding her true identity from everyone, including her racist husband…

Author(s): Nella Larsen
Original Publish Date: 01 Apr, 2012

Professional reviews

"‘Nella Larsen's novels open up a whole world of experience and struggle that seemed to me, when I first read them years ago, absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable.’ Alice Walker, author of The Colour Purple"

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