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The complete fiction : Passing ; Quicksand ; And the stories / Nella Larsen ; with an introduction by Erika Renée Williams.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 411.Publisher: New York : Everyman's Library, 2023Description: xxxvi, 252 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781841594118 (hbk.)
Other title:
  • Complete fiction of Nella Larsen : Passing, Quicksand, and the stories
  • Passing, Quicksand, and the stories
Contained works:
  • Larsen, Nella. Passing
  • Larsen, Nella. Quicksand
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813.52 LAR 23 023229
Contents:
Wrong man -- Freedom -- Sanctuary -- Quicksand -- Passing.
Summary: Throughout her [...] literary career, Nella Larsen wrote piercing dramas about the Black middle class that featured sensitive, spirited heroines struggling to find a place where they belonged. Passing, Larsen's best-known work, is a disturbing story about the unraveling lives of two childhood friends, one of whom turns her back on her past and marries a white racist. Just as disquieting is the portrait in Quicksand of biracial Helga Crane, who is unable to escape her loneliness no matter where and with whom she lives. Race and marriage offer few securities here or in the other stories in this compulsively readable collection, rich in psychological complexity and imbued with a vibrant sense of place.
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 813.52 LAR 023229 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 023229

This complete collection includes three short stories and two full length novels.

Includes bibliographical references.

Wrong man -- Freedom -- Sanctuary -- Quicksand -- Passing.

Throughout her [...] literary career, Nella Larsen wrote piercing dramas about the Black middle class that featured sensitive, spirited heroines struggling to find a place where they belonged. Passing, Larsen's best-known work, is a disturbing story about the unraveling lives of two childhood friends, one of whom turns her back on her past and marries a white racist. Just as disquieting is the portrait in Quicksand of biracial Helga Crane, who is unable to escape her loneliness no matter where and with whom she lives. Race and marriage offer few securities here or in the other stories in this compulsively readable collection, rich in psychological complexity and imbued with a vibrant sense of place.

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