Passing Through is a stand-alone novel that completes
    the trilogy begun with Passing Off and Passing On.
    Former pro basketball player, tour guide, and memoirist,
    Michael Keever is recruited to teach Creative Non-Fiction
    at Queen City College. Having faked his qualifications,
    Keever attempts to deceive his family, students,
    colleagues, administrators, and friends with increasingly
    comic schemes. When he receives anonymous emails
    that accuse him of fictionalizing his earlier
    autobiographies, Keever needs to discover the author of
    the emails. His absurd detection boomerangs and his
    troubles multiply, ultimately forcing him into a plot of
    imposture that takes him to Algeria and puts both his new
    life as an academic and his life itself in jeopardy.

    Passing Through resembles a Rabbit novel rewritten by
    the Richard Russo of Straight Man or the Don DeLillo of
    White Noise. “No game, no gain” is Keever’s motto.
    LeClair fools with academic protocols, plays with
    conventions of travel writing and autobiography, and
    ultimately plays against the academically trained reader
    with unreliable stories nested within probable fabrications
    within possible inventions. Humorous in its bumbling hero
    and fumbled plots, Passing Through also has a satiric
    edge in its presentation of a private college as a drive-
    through business.

Passing Through
    A widely published critic, Tom LeClair was a member of the jury that chose the 2005
    National Book Award for fiction.  In addition to his novels—Passing Off, Well-Founded
    Fear, Passing On, and The Liquidators—LeClair has published two works of literary
    criticism: In the Loop and The Art of Excess.  He has reviewed books for The New York
    Times Book Review, BookForum, The Nation, American Book Review, Atlantic Monthly,
    and many other national periodicals.  He is also the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of English
    at the University of Cincinnati.
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ISBN 978-0-9785165-9-8
284 pages
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