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Title:
The complete fiction : Passing, Quicksand, and the stories
Alternate title:
Complete fiction of Nella Larsen : Passing, Quicksand, and the stories
Added Title:
Passing.

Quicksand.

Sactuary.

Freedom.

Wrong man.
Series Number:
411.
Summary:
Throughout her short but brilliant 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 bigot. Just as disquieting is the portrait in Quicksand of Helga Crane, half black and half white, 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 sense of place that brings Harlem vibrantly to life. -- Amazon.
General Note:
This complete collection includes three short stories and two full length novels.
Contents:
Wrong man -- Freedom -- Sanctuary -- Quicksand -- Passing.
Physical Description:
xxxvi, 252 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf,
Publication Date:
2023
ISBN:
9780593536544
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.

©2023
Call Number:
LARSEN
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