Passing, Nella Larsen
Passing, Nella Larsen
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Passing

Author: Nella Larsen

Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano, The Ark

Unabridged: 3 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/26/2022


Synopsis

Passing is a novel by American author Nella Larsen, first published in 1929. Set primarily in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the 1920s, the story centers on the reunion of two childhood friends—Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield—and their increasing fascination with each other's lives

A must for all students, teachers, and lovers of the epitome of the mile-high artfulness of the English language and how beautifully it can carry timeless tales within it. A rare audiobook treasury.

Nellallitea "Nella" Larsen was an American novelist. Working as a nurse and a librarian, she published two novels, Quicksand and Passing, and a few short stories. Though her literary output was scant, she earned recognition by her contemporaries

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa of Troy on January 19, 2024

Checking out the Netflix Book Club (Which is confusing because it is actually on YouTube)! Irene "Rene" is out doing some shopping for a birthday present when she becomes faint and slips into a taxi. The driver takes her to The Drayton, a hotel with a rooftop restaurant, to cool down. The rooftop is......more

Goodreads review by emma on March 21, 2022

Short classics are my passion. I love getting smarter in under 2 hours. Now I'm more intelligent and more pretentious and I had a good time getting there. Living the dream. That's enough of a review. Bottom line: Sometimes short and impressive is all a book has to be!! ----------------- reading books by B......more

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on April 23, 2017

I read this a few months ago now, and I drastically undervalued its brilliance. I’m writing an essay on racial encounter in the modernist movement for university, so I’ve been picking this book apart during my second and third readings of it. During the course of it, I’ve noticed something equally a......more

Goodreads review by Katie on February 06, 2023

Simply one of the best books ever written.......more