The Blue Stain: A Novel of a Racial Outcast

by Hugo Bettauer

Book Overview

Hugo Bettauer's The Blue Stain, a novel of racial mixing and "passing," starts and ends in Georgia but also takes the reader to Vienna and New York. First published in 1922, the novel tells the story of Carletto, son of a white European academic and an African American daughter of former slaves, who, having passed as white in Europe and fled to America after losing his fortune, resists being seen as "black" before ultimately accepting that identity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571139826
• ISBN13: 9781571139825
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"