An edition of Passing (1929)

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An edition of Passing (1929)

Passing.

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First published to critical acclaim in 1929, Passing firmly established Nella Larsen's prominence among women writers of the Harlem Renaissance.

Irene Redfield, the novel's protagonist, is a woman with an enviable life. She and her husband, Brian, a prominent physician, share a comfortable Harlem town house with their sons. Her work arranging charity balls that gather Harlem's elite creates a sense of purpose and respectability for Irene. But her hold on this world begins to slip the day she encounters Clare Kendry, a childhood friend with whom she had lost touch. Clare—light-skinned, beautiful, and charming—tells Irene how, after her father's death, she left behind the black neighborhood of her adolescence and began passing for white, hiding her true identity from everyone, including her racist husband. As Clare begins inserting herself into Irene's life, Irene is thrown into a panic, terrified of the consequences of Clare's dangerous behavior. And when Clare witnesses the vibrancy and energy of the community she left behind, her burning desire to come back threatens to shatter her careful deception.

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Publisher
Arno Press
Language
English
Pages
215

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2022, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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2022, Cengage Gale
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2021, Chemeketa Press
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Nov 17, 2021, Martino Fine Books
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Sep 14, 2021, Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio
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Oct 26, 2021, Brilliance Audio
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Nov 09, 2021, Penguin Books
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2021, Serpent's Tail Limited
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Jul 06, 2021, Signet
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2020, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
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Mar 16, 2020, Alpha Editions
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2020, Penguin Books, Limited, Penguin Classics
in English
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Passing
Sep 01, 2020, Macmillan Collector's Library
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2020, Penguin Books, Limited
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2020, Pan Macmillan
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Jan 20, 2020, Nexum
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2019, Independently Published
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Apr 03, 2018, Wilder Publications
hardcover
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Jun 01, 2018, Chemeketa Press
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Oct 16, 2018, Restless Books
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Sep 22, 2017, Digireads.com, Digireads.com Publishing
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Jul 14, 2017, Albatross Publishers
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Feb 05, 2016, Martino Publishing, Brand: Martino Fine Books
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Passing: a novel
Oct 05, 2013, Oshun Publishing Company Incorporated
paperback
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2013, Start Publishing LLC
in English
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2012, Dover Publications, Incorporated
in English
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Aug 01, 2012, Recorded Books
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2012, Dover Publications, Incorporated
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2011-01-01, CreateSpace
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Passing: By the Author of Quicksand
Aug 20, 2010, WLC, Wildside Press
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2010-01-01, Wilder Publications
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Passing (Norton Critical Edition)
September 19, 2007, W. W. Norton
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Passing (Norton Critical Edition)
September 19, 2007, W. W. Norton
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Passing: authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism
2007, W.W. Norton & Co.
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2004, Dover Publications
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2004, Dover Pubs.
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February 4, 2003, Penguin Classics
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January 2003, Recorded Books
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2003, Penguin Books
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May 2002, Tandem Library
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May 2002, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
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2002, Prentice-Hall
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2002, Modern Library
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2000, Modern Library
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1997, Penguin Books
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1991, Ayer Co.
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Passing
June 1990, Beaufort Books
Paperback in English
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Passing
1985, Ayer
in English - Reprint ed.
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Passing
1971, Collier Books, Collier-Macmillan
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1971, Collier Books
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April 1970, Beaufort Books
Hardcover in English
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1969, Arno Press
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Passing.
1969, Negro Universities Press
in English
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Passing
1929, A. A. Knopf
Hardcover in English

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Edition Notes

Reprint of the 1929 ed. with a new introduction.

Published in
New York
Series
The American Negro, his history and literature, Afro-American culture series.
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.5/2
Library of Congress
PZ3.L33 Pas7, PS3523.A7225 Pas7

The Physical Object

Pagination
vi, 215 p.
Number of pages
215

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4911022M
LCCN
76092233

Excerpts

It was the last letter in Irene Redfield's little pile of morning mail.
added anonymously.

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