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Quicksand and passing / Nella Larsen

By: Material type: TextTextDescription: 294 pages ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 9781784877590
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823..912 LAR
Summary: Larsen wrote two novels in her lifetime, both of which are collected here. The first, Quicksand, follows a mixed-race woman who runs from the fictional town of Naxos to Chicago to Harlem to Copenhagen. It becomes easy for her to leave behind places but the discrimination she's running from is inescapable. In Passing, two childhood friends reconnect later in life. One, slightly more light-skinned than the other, lives her life passing for a white person, married to a flagrant racist while her friend observes uneasily.
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Books Books Acquisition, Cataloguing, Classification and Distribution Development Adult Fiction 823..912 LAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available B237332
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Larsen wrote two novels in her lifetime, both of which are collected here. The first, Quicksand, follows a mixed-race woman who runs from the fictional town of Naxos to Chicago to Harlem to Copenhagen. It becomes easy for her to leave behind places but the discrimination she's running from is inescapable. In Passing, two childhood friends reconnect later in life. One, slightly more light-skinned than the other, lives her life passing for a white person, married to a flagrant racist while her friend observes uneasily.

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