Quicksand (9781684112975)
Hardcover 136 pages English Feb 27, 2017
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Nella Larsen's first novel tells the story of Helga Crane, a fictional character loosely based on Larsen's own early life. Crane is the lovely and refined daughter of a Danish mother and a West Indian black father who abandons Helga and her mother soon after Helga is born. Unable to feel comfortable with any of her white-skinned relatives, Helga lives in various places in America and visits Denmark in search of people among whom she feels at home. The work is a superb psychological study of a complicated and appealing woman, Helga Crane, who, like Larsen herself, is the product of a liaison between a black man and a white woman. In one sense, Quicksand might be called an odyssey; however, instead of overcoming a series of obstacles and finally arriving at her native land, Larsen's protagonist has a series of adventures, each of which ends in disappointment.
- Author:
- Larsen Nella
- Publisher:
- Www.Bnpublishing.Com
- Publication Date:
- Feb 27, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 136 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1684112974
- ISBN-13:
- 9781684112975