Passing
When People Can't Be Who They Are
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Word Count
72,000 words, Guess
Page Count
288 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivepassingwhenpeopl0000kroe
- ISBN-101891620991
- ISBN-139781891620997
- Goodreads1383764
- Library of Congress Control Number2003046866
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number52208402
- Better World Books9781891620997
- Open LibraryOL8717018M
Classifications
- LCCHM1068.K76 2003
- LCCHM1068 .K76 2003
Description
Tells the stories of six present day "passers": a black screenwriter who passed as a white Jew, a white teacher who passed for black, a working-class Puerto Rican desktop publishing expert who passes for someone of more privileged background, a gay Conservative Jewish seminarian and a lesbian naval officer who passed for straight, and a poet who radically shifts his persona to write about rock 'n' roll. These and other stories from history explore passing and its consequences.
First Sentence
HE HAS NO RECOLLECTION OF HIS MOTHER, although he knows she was Jewish because this much his father told him; that, and how she took off for Israel while she was pregnant with him, drawn by the 1967 war.
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