Quicksand
$24.71
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
9 July 2024
Summary
Nella Larsen’s powerful first novel evocatively portrays the racial and gender restrictions that can mark a life. 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, ch…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241652657 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241652650 |
| Author: | Nella Larsen |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 123g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 8mm |
| Series: | The Penguin English Library |
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“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 an American novelist and major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Chicago, she attended university in Nashville and subsequently lived in Denmark and New York, where she worked as a nurse and librarian. Her two novels, Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929), established her as one of the most important black female novelists in American history.
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