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"Quicksand and Passing are novels I will never forget. They open up a whole world of experience and struggle that seemed to me, when I first read them years ago, absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable." --Alice Walker

Nella Larsen's groundbreaking novels of race, identity, alienation, and social expectation stand among the defining works of the Harlem Renaissance and twentieth-century American literature. This volume brings together Quicksand and Passing, two psychologically... Read Full Overview

Nella Larsen's groundbreaking novels of race, identity, alienation, and social expectation stand among the defining works of the Harlem Renaissance and twentieth-century American literature. This volume brings together Quicksand and Passing, two psychologically... Read Full Overview

" Quicksand and Passing are novels I will never forget. They open up a whole world of experience and struggle that seemed to me, when I first read them years ago, absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable."-Alice Walker "A tantalizing mix of moral fable and sensuous... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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.