Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable life and place for herself, but ends up back where she started, choosing emotional freedom that quickly translates into a narrow existence.
Quicksand, Nella Larsen's powerful first novel, has intriguing autobiographical parallels and at the same time invokes the international dimension of African American culture of the 1920s. It also evocatively portrays the racial and gender restrictions that can mark a life.
"Fine, thoughtful and courageous. It is, on the whole, the best piece of fiction that Negro America has produced since the heyday of [Charles] Chesnutt." (W. E. B. Du Bois)
Quicksand, Nella Larsen's powerful first novel, has intriguing autobiographical parallels and at the same time invokes the international dimension of African American culture of the 1920s. It also evocatively portrays the racial and gender restrictions that can mark a life.
"Fine, thoughtful and courageous. It is, on the whole, the best piece of fiction that Negro America has produced since the heyday of [Charles] Chesnutt." (W. E. B. Du Bois)
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Hardback Editions
June 1970 : Hardback
| Title: Quicksand Author(s): Nella Larsen ISBN: 0-8371-1127-7 / 978-0-8371-1127-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Praeger Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1969 : Hardback
| Title: Quicksand Author(s): Nella Larsen Publisher: Negro Universities Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
1928 : Hardback
| Title: Quicksand Author(s): Nella Larsen Publisher: A.A. Knopf Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
Paperback Editions
March 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Quicksand Author(s): Nella Larsen ISBN: 1-891396-99-4 / 9781891396991 (USA edition) Publisher: Martino Fine Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
February 2010 : Paperback
| Title: Quicksand Author(s): Nella Larsen ISBN: 1-60459-993-6 / 9781604599930 (USA edition) Publisher: Wilder Publications Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
September 2006 : Paperback
| Title: Quicksand (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) Author(s): Nella Larsen ISBN: 0-486-45140-2 / 978-0-486-45140-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Dover Publications Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2002 : Paperback
| Title: Quicksand Author(s): Nella Larsen Publisher: Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A. Availability: Amazon More details... |
2001 : Paperback
| Title: Quicksand (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Publisher: Penguin Classics Author(s): Nella Larsen Availability: Amazon More details... |
May 1999 : Paperback
| Title: Quicksand (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Author(s): Nella Larsen ISBN: 0-14-118127-3 / 978-0-14-118127-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
June 1971 : Paperback
| Title: Quicksand Author(s): Nella Larsen ISBN: 0-02-052690-3 / 978-0-02-052690-2 (USA edition) Publisher: Collier Macmillan Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
August 2010 : Kindle edition
| Title: Quicksand Author(s): Nella Larsen Publisher: Wilder Publications Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
1928 : Unknown
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