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The complete fiction : Passing, Quicksand, and the stories / Nella Larsen ; with an introduction by Erika Renée Williams.
Van Pelt Library PS3523.A7225 A6 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Larsen, Nella, author.
- Series:
- Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 411.
- Everyman's library ; 411
- Standardized Title:
- Novels
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women--Fiction.
- African American women.
- Multiracial people--Fiction.
- Multiracial people.
- Passing (Identity)--Fiction.
- Passing (Identity).
- Race relations--Fiction.
- Race relations.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.).
- Psychological fiction.
- Short stories.
- short stories.
- New York (State)--New York--Harlem.
- Genre:
- short stories.
- Fiction
- Novels.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 252 pages ; 21 cm.
- Other Title:
- Complete fiction of Nella Larsen : Passing, Quicksand, and the stories
- Passing, Quicksand, and the stories
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Wrong man
- Freedom
- Sanctuary
- Quicksand
- Passing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- This complete collection includes three short stories and two full length novels.
- Contains:
- Larsen, Nella. Passing.
- Larsen, Nella. Quicksand.
- ISBN:
- 9780593536544
- 0593536541
- OCLC:
- 1374592936
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