Quicksand and Passing
Start Publishing PD · Print & ebook · May 15, 2024
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- Who it’s for
- Read Nella Larsen’s paired novels, including Quicksand’s stark account of desire and respectability.
- Genres
- Black Women's Fiction, Black Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Published
- Start Publishing PD, May 15, 2024
Nearest books
Matched by what the books are about, then ordered by what their readers also loved.
The Complete Fiction of Nella LarsenNella Larsen, Charles Larson85% match
The Short Fiction of Nella LarsenNella Larsen76% match
PassingNella Larsen68% matchShares Black Historical Fiction
The Black WomanToni Cade Bambara, Eleanor W Traylor46% match
QuicksandNella Larsen63% matchShares Black Women's Fiction, Black Historical Fiction and Literary Fiction
The Big SeaLangston Hughes42% match
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Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are both of her novels Passing and Quicksand. Quicksand was autobiographical in nature and examined a woman's need for sexual fulfilment balanced against respectability and acceptance amid a deeply religious society.
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The novel is deeply pessimistic and ends as the protagonist is sucked into a life that is at odds with all that she beleives.
Desire and Respectability
Read Nella Larsen’s paired novels, including Quicksand’s stark account of desire and respectability.
Come here for
- Two novels by Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen
- Quicksand’s tension between desire, respectability, and religious society
Expect
- A deeply pessimistic finish to Quicksand
- A literary lens on acceptance and sexual fulfilment
Where it sits
| Black Women's Fiction | 37% |
|---|---|
| Literary Fiction | 34% |
| Black Historical Fiction | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Historical Fiction
- Christian Historical Fiction
- Authors
- Nella Larsen
- Publisher
- Start Publishing PD
- Published
- May 15, 2024
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- The Classics