Passing (movie Tie-in)
A NETFLIX BOOK CLUB PICKNow a major motion picture starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga, Nella Larsen's powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that continues to resonate today.Clare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a racist white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past after deciding to pass as a white woman. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American community, and is simultaneously allured and repelled by Clare's risky decision to engage…
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- ISBN: 978-0-14-313736-8
- EAN: 9780143137368
- Produktnummer: 37552961
- Verlag: Penguin Putnam Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Masse: H13.8 cm x B20.1 cm x D1.3 cm 122 g
- Gewicht: 122
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Nella Larsen, one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of the Harlem Renaissance, was born Nellie Walker on April 13, 1891, in Chicago. She began publishing stories in the mid-1920s and published her first novel, Quicksand, in 1928. Passing came out the following year. Larsen was awarded a William E. Harmon Bronze Award for Distinguished Achievement Among Negroes and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She was unable to have her third novel accepted for publication and by the end of the 1930s had stopped writing altogether. She worked full time as a nurse until her death in 1964.
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