The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen

Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

Fiction & Literature, African American, Literary, Contemporary Women
Cover of the book The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen by Nella Larsen, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Nella Larsen ISBN: 9780307757166
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: September 1, 2010
Imprint: Anchor Language: English
Author: Nella Larsen
ISBN: 9780307757166
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: September 1, 2010
Imprint: Anchor
Language: English

This volume brings together the complete fiction of the author of Passing and Quicksand, one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance. 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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

This volume brings together the complete fiction of the author of Passing and Quicksand, one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance. 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.

More books from Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Cover of the book Revolutionaries by Nella Larsen
Cover of the book The Stand by Nella Larsen
Cover of the book Browning: Poems by Nella Larsen
Cover of the book Operating Instructions by Nella Larsen
Cover of the book Warriors of God by Nella Larsen
Cover of the book The Futurist by Nella Larsen
Cover of the book The Guardians by Nella Larsen
Cover of the book Everything Under the Heavens by Nella Larsen
Cover of the book The Big Book of Science Fiction by Nella Larsen
Cover of the book Song of the Water Saints by Nella Larsen
Cover of the book Dark Continent by Nella Larsen
Cover of the book Plagues and Peoples by Nella Larsen
Cover of the book Asylum by Nella Larsen
Cover of the book The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories by Nella Larsen
Cover of the book The Creators by Nella Larsen
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy