Nella Larsen - Böcker

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'She wished to find out about this hazardous business of "passing," this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take one's chance in anothe...

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Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-American heritage. When she renews her acquaintance with her childhood friend Irene, who has not hidden...

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En sommardag 1927 möts två kvinnor på en hotellterrass i Chicago. Irene Redfield märker att någon stirrar på henne och tror först att hon blivit avslöjad. Så känner hon igen kvinnan vid bordet intill som Clare Kendry, barndomsvännen från en helt a...

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'The overlooked American writer who blows apart modern thinking on race' Telegraph Born to a Danish mother and a West Indian father, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself as a mixed-race woman in the Deep South of 1920's America. She moves ...

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Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Passing confronts the reality of racial passing. The novel focuses on two childhood friends Cla...

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En sommardag 1927 möts två kvinnor på en hotellterrass i Chicago. Irene Redfield märker att någon stirrar på henne och tror först att hon blivit avslöjad. Så känner hon igen kvinnan vid bordet intill som Clare Kendry, barndomsvännen från en helt a...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.'She wished to find out about this hazardous business of "e;passing,"e; this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take one's chanc...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'She wished to find out about this hazardous business of "passing," this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take one's chance in anothe...

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Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-American heritage. When she renews her acquaintance with her childhood friend Irene, who has not hidden...

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A classic, brilliant and layered novel that has been at the heart of racial identity discourse in America for almost a century. Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her African...

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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Two women in 1920s New York discover how fluid and dangerous our perceptions of race can be in this electrifying classic of the Harlem Renaissance—with an introduction by Kaitlyn Greenidge, autho...

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This volume brings together the complete fiction of the author of Passing and Quicksand, one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Throughout her short but brilliant literary career, Nella Larsen wrote piercing dramas about the bla...

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Married to a successful physician and prominently ensconced in Harlem's vibrant society of the 1920s, Irene Redfield leads a charmed existence - until a chance encounter with a childhood friend who has been "passing for white." Passing offers fasc...

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Nella Larsen's powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that continues to resonate today. A New York Times Editors’ Choice   Clare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious, sh...

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