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Original Title:	Passing
ISBN:	0142437271 (ISBN13: 9780142437278)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Irene Redfield, Clare Kendry, Brian Redfield
Setting:	Chicago, Illinois(United States) New York City, New York(United States) Harlem, New York City, New York(United States)

Passing

Nella Larsen

Paperback | Pages: 122 pages

Rating: 3.85 | 19157 Users | 1526 Reviews

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Title	:	Passing
Author	:	Nella Larsen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Penguin Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 122 pages
Published	:	April 24th 2003 by Penguin (first published 1929)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. African American. Race. Academic. School

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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. The Modern Library is proud to present Passing—an electrifying story of two women who cross the color line in 1920s New York—together with a new Introduction by the Obie Award- winning playwright and novelist Ntozake Shange.

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.

Brilliantly plotted and elegantly written, Passing offers a gripping psychological portrait of emotional extremity.

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Huzzah for neat seguing of plot pulse and theme! This one proves to be a much better outing than Quicksand because it relies on dialogue and interactions between characters to gradually disclose its cleverly withheld secrets. Till the very end Larsen successfully kept me guessing at the hidden fears, ambitions and motivations that drive Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry - two light-skinned black women who subscribe to different forms of morally ambiguous survivalist ideology to counter the

Another great novel by Nella Larsen, set in Harlem in the 1920s and written in 1929. It is about two childhood friends, Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry, written in the third person from the point of view of Redfield. One of the keys to the novel lies in the title. Passing indicates, in this case a person of mixed heritage passing as someone who is white (in this novel Kendry). But this is not just a novel about race, Larsen addresses sexuality and gender as well. The plot revolves around Kendry

Written during and as a part of the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen's Passing is a very interesting look at a time and place and people. The emotions and experiences of the primary characters, these women and their approaches to their lives, their race, their marriages, their potential futures, are so complex in ways that defy any easy resolution.Clare Kendry is the one who is "Passing." She grew up on the South Side of Chicago but resolved to live her adult life as a white woman and did so,

I've been fooled twice now into thinking Nella Larsen isn't a great writer. She is. She controls her story perfectly; she gives you exactly the information you need at exactly the right time. Her stories are carefully constructed, each one building steadily towards a wallop. They make a huge impact. There's no fat, nothing that doesn't exactly need to be there. There's a six-floor walkup in one scene of Passing; the characters complain about it, and one makes a racial comment about it. It's

A short novel about a concept so alien today to the white, non-American community that it's absolutely worth reading for its subject matter. It is a tad poetic, but not too much so; abruptly ending, but providing, to my mind, a sufficient sense of closure; the dialogues are fine, the situations feel realistic; the only thing I felt dissatisfied with were the characters.The perceptiveness of Irene, the protagonist, her insecurities, her perception of herself as mother and wife make her very easy

This book echoed a small part of my life. As a person who is half-Mexican, I somewhat know what it is to "pass." My upbringing was structured to affect this social illusion.My mother, who speaks fluent Spanish, refused to teach me Spanish as a child. She did not speak English when she started school here in the US and she wanted save her children that distinction. Beyond Spanish, my DNA provided me a light enough complexion that I was seldom, if ever, identified as Mexican. People were always

4.5/5My rating of this book has been compromised by my extremely recent previous reading of Larsen's magnificent Quicksand, it's true. Take it as one of those times where the scale depends solely on the capabilities of the sole author herself, rather than being one carefully calibrated across all of whom I've read. If the latter were the case, I would have to downgrade a great deal of other works read previously to this; as I have neither the time nor inclination for such things, simply take my