Quicksand
$24.99
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
29 January 2002
Summary
Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable life and place for herself, but ends up back where she started, choosing emotional freedom that quickly translates into a narrow existence.
Quicksand, Nella Larsen…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141181271 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141181273 |
| Author: | Nella Larsen, Thadious M. Davis |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 29 January 2002 |
| Weight: | 153g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 131mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics |
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Critics Review
“Fine, thoughtful and courageous. It is, on the whole, the best piece of fiction that Negro America has produced since the heyday of [Charles] Chesnutt.”
“Fine, thoughtful and courageous. It is, on the whole, the best piece of fiction that Negro America has produced since the heyday of [Charles] Chesnutt.” W. E. B. Du Bois
About The Author
Nella Larsen
Nella Larsen (1891-1964) was the author of two novels and several short stories. She received a Guggenheim fellowship to write a third novel in 1930 but, unable to find a publisher for it, she disappeared from the literary scene and worked as a nurse.
Thadious M. Davis is the G. C. Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, the author of an acclaimed biography of Nella Larsen, and the editor of Larsen’s Quicksand.
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