The complete fiction of Nella Larsen
By: edited and with an introduction by Charles R. Larson ; with a foreword by Marita Golden.
Contributors: Larson, Charles R.; Golden, Marita.
Edition: Anchor Books ed.
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: African American women -- Fiction; Racially mixed people -- Fiction; Passing (Identity) -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Wrong man.; Freedom.; Sanctuary.; Quicksand.; Passing.
Description: "A light-skinned beauty who spends years passing for white finds herself dangerously drawn to an old friend's Harlem neighborhood. A restless young mulatto tries desperately to find a comfortable place in a world in which she sees herself as a perpetual outsider. A mother's confrontation with tragedy tests her loyalty to her race." "The gifted Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen wrote compelling dramas about the black middle class that featured sensitive, spirited heroines struggling to find a place where they belonged. Passing, Larsen's best known work, is a disturbing story about the unraveling lives of two childhood friends, one of whom turns her back on her past and marries a white bigot. Just as disquieting is the portrait in Quicksand of Helga Crane, half black and half white, who can't escape her loneliness no matter where and with whom she lives. Race and marriage offer few securities here or in the other stories in a collection that is compellingly readable, rich in psychological complexity, and imbued with a sense of place that brings Harlem vibrantly to life."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxii).
"Originally titled An intimation of things distant"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Foreward / Marita Golden; title: Introduction / Charles R. Lawson; title: The wrong man; title: Freedom; title: Sanctuary; title: Quicksand; title: Passing; title: Nella Larson, a chronology.