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Passing
  • Published: 20 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529981308
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $19.99

Passing

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Paperback
20 Oct 2026
Hardback
29 Nov 2022
EBook
6 July 2021
EBook
1 Oct 2020
EBook
18 Dec 2007
EBook
4 Feb 2003
Paperback
28 Sept 2021
Paperback
1 Dec 2020
Paperback
4 Feb 2003
Paperback
15 Dec 2001
Hardback
3 Mar 2020
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Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Nella Larsen and her devastating masterpiece of two women navigating a friendship in a racially divided world

The classic 1920s story of a friendship torn apart, Passing is Nella Larsen's devastating masterpiece

Irene Redfield is living a life of careful balance in Harlem when a chance encounter draws her back into the orbit of Clare Kendry, a childhood friend. Passing as white, Clare moves effortlessly through a world that Irene has chosen to reject. Their renewed intimacy is charged with fascination and envy.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
  • Published: 20 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529981308
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $19.99
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