Quicksand
by:
Nella Larsen (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781306337304 (1306337305)
Publish date: January 1st 2012
Publisher: Dover Publications
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
American,
20th Century,
African American,
Womens,
Race
I wish I could believe anything that transpires after chapter 21.
WHY: I loved her novelette "Passing."
Does not get off to a great start; the writing is pretty wince-y in the early going:"Helga ducked her head under the covers in a vain attempt to shut out what she knew would fill the pregnant silence - the sharp sarcastic voice of the dormitory matron. It came."But she gets over it pretty quick. You...
Nella larsen (1891 - 1964), was a Harlem Renaissance American writer that only published two books. Quicksand was her first book and was partly autobiographical. The story is about Helga Crane and her search to fit into either white society or black society. The daughter of a white mother and a b...
Like most people in their early twenties, Helga Crane is filled with the desire to be more than she is, to be more entranced by the world than she is, and to see something more of life than her teaching position in the rural South offers. The cure, then, is to dismiss, one after another, the stops ...
13 years ago
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