Sentence examples for novel passing from inspiring English sources

Felicia Rosshandler's novel Passing Through Havana is published by St Martin's Press and is available on Kindle.

In Ms. Larsen's Harlem Renaissance-era novel "Passing" a biracial woman poses as white, marries a racist and meets a tragic end.

Take the painful case of Nella Larsen, a writer of the Harlem Renaissance whose 1929 novel, "Passing," has just been reissued in the Random House Modern Library series.

Things also end badly for Clare Kendry, from Nella Larsen's celebrated novel "Passing" (1929), whose lifelong deception is discovered by her racist husband shortly before she goes flying out a window to her death.

Mark Twain and Charles Chesnutt were among the early American novelists to explore this phenomenon, but Nella Larson's 1929 novel Passing was the first English language book to explicitly brand itself with the term.

Rebecca's very deliberate transformation - via make-up, haircut and dress - from German-Jewish Rebecca into all-American Hazel reminded me, I say, of Nella Larsen's 1929 novel, Passing, in which mixed-race women "pass" themselves off as white and marry white men who know nothing of their heritage.

Everything in the movie — and nearly everything in the novel — passes through a double lens of romanticism.

The novel passed the signal sales mark of 1m copies worldwide some years ago, and I've stopped keeping track.

"Everything in the movie — and nearly everything in the novel — passes through a double lens of romanticism," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times in May.

She read Richard Russo's Bridge of Sighs: "No novel passes the Nietzsche test if you can't stand reading it even once".

James Lasdun's new novel passes from cold war East Germany to the modern United States without so much as a refuelling stop amid the pre-occupations of Great Britain.