Quicksand by Nella Larsen
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
SKU: 9780241652657 • Barcode: 9780241652657

Quicksand: Nella Larsen

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Book information

  • Format: Paperback
  • Main subject: Classic fiction: literary and general
  • Genre / subject: Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
  • Author: Nella Larsen
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

Quicksand by Nella Larsen is a classic novel for adult readers.

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, choosing emotional freedom that quickly translates into a narrow existence. Nella Larsen's powerful first novel has intriguing autobiographical parallels and at the same time invokes the international dimension of African American culture in the 1920 s. Slow, moving and reflective, Quicksand is a detailed and evocative portrayal of a biracial woman's inner life.

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