Quicksand

By Larsen, Nella

Book Id: WPLBN0002954827
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File Size: 145.77 MB
Reproduction Date: 2011

Title:	Quicksand
Author:	Larsen, Nella
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction, Literature
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Quicksand
Historic Publication Date:	1928
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Larsen, B. N. (1928). Quicksand. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

Description
Quicksand is a 1928 novel by Nella Larsen, a writer of the Harlem Renaissance. It focuses on Helga Crane, a mixed-race woman who is a schoolteacher in the American south. As the novel opens, she suddenly decides to give up her teaching position and go north, back to her roots in Chicago. Helga's restless search for identity is semi-autobiographical, inspired by Larsen's own struggles to reconcile her mixed heritage with the racism of 1920s America. Although this novel was published after 1923, the copyright was never renewed and is therefore in the public domain. (Introduction by Elizabeth Klett)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Fiction, Literature