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Quicksand
Nella Larsen
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. ‘She wished to find out about
this hazardous business of “passing,” this breaking away from
all that was familiar and friendly to take one’s chance in
another environment…’ The elegant Clare Kendry glides through
New York’s high-society circles with ease, until the day she is
reacquainted with her childhood friend, Irene. Clare chooses to
‘pass’ as white, hiding her African American heritage from her
bigoted husband, while Irene leads a life that embraces it. As both
women observe the other, a relationship of mutual fascination,
obsession and secrets begins, one that will end in devastating
circumstances. Published in 1929, Nella Larsen’s Passing lays
bare the complexities of identity, race, class and gender. The
novella established Larsen as one of the most important female
authors in American literature and is considered a literary
masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance era.
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Passing (Paperback)
Christa Holm Vogelius; Nella Larsen
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Coming to Netflix! Nella Larsen’s Passing is a distinctive and
revealing novel about racial identity, now a critically acclaimed
film adaptation by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson, Ruth
Negga and Alexander Skarsgård. Irene Redfield, married to a
successful physician, enjoys a comfortable life in Harlem, New
York. Reluctantly, she renews her friendship with old school
friend, Clare Kendry. Clare, who like Irene is light skinned,
‘passes’ as white and is married to a racist white man who has
no idea about Clare’s racial heritage. Clare is very persuasive
and Irene, despite misgivings, can’t resist letting her back into
her world. As tensions mount between friends and between couples,
this taut and mesmerizing narrative spins towards an unexpected
end. This edition of Passing features an introduction by writer and
academic, Christa Holm Vogelius.
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Passing (Paperback)
Nella Larsen
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. 'She wished to find out about this
hazardous business of "passing," this breaking away from all that
was familiar and friendly to take one's chance in another
environment...' The elegant Clare Kendry glides through New York's
high-society circles with ease, until the day she is reacquainted
with her childhood friend, Irene. Clare chooses to 'pass' as white,
hiding her African American heritage from her bigoted husband,
while Irene leads a life that embraces it. As both women observe
the other, a relationship of mutual fascination, obsession and
secrets begins, one that will end in devastating circumstances.
Published in 1929, Nella Larsen's Passing lays bare the
complexities of identity, race, class and gender. The novella
established Larsen as one of the most important female authors in
American literature and is considered a literary masterpiece of the
Harlem Renaissance era.
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Quicksand
Nella Larsen; Introduction by Asali Solomon
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Now a major Netflix film starring Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga and
Alexander Skarsgard Childhood friends Clare and Irene are both
light-skinned enough to pass as white, but only one of them has
chosen to cross the colour line and live with the secret hanging
over her. Clare believes she had successfully cut herself off from
any connection to her past. Married to a racist white man who is
oblivious to her African-American heritage, it is vital to her that
the truth remains hidden. Irene is living as a middle-class Black
woman with her husband and children in Harlem, taking on an
important role in her community and embracing her origins. Both
women are forced to re-examine their relationships with each other,
with their husbands and with the truth, confronting their most
closely guarded fears. Nella Larsen's powerful, tragic and acutely
observant writing established her as a lodestar of America's Harlem
Renaissance. Almost a century later, Passing and its nuanced
exploration of the many fraught ways in which we seek to survive
remains as timely as ever
Now a major motion picture starring Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga and
Alexander Skarsgard. A writer of the Harlem Renaissance, Nella
Larsen wrote just two novels, published here, and a handful of
short stories. Critically acclaimed, both speak powerfully of the
contradictions and restrictions experienced by black women at that
time. Quicksand, written in 1928, is an autobiographical novel
about Helga Crane, a mixed race woman caught between fulfilling her
desires and gaining respectability in her middle class
neighbourhood. Written a year later, Passing tells the story of two
childhood friends, Clare and Irene, both light skinned enough to
pass as white. Reconnecting in adulthood, Clare has chosen to live
as a white woman, while Irene embraces black culture and has an
important role in her community. Nella Larsen's novels are moving,
characterful, and important books. She pioneered writing about the
conflicts of sexuality, race and the secret suffering of women in
the early twentieth century.
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Passing (Paperback)
Nella Larsen
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"Absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable." -- Alice
Walker
"A work so fine, sensitive, and distinguished that it rises above
race categories and becomes that rare object, a good novel." --
"The Saturday Review of Literature
"Married to a successful physician and prominently ensconced in
Harlem's vibrant society of the 1920s, Irene Redfield leads a
charmed existence-until she is shaken out of it by a chance
encounter with a childhood friend who has been "passing for white."
An important figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen was the
first African-American woman to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship.
Her fictional portraits of women seeking their identities through a
fog of racial confusion were informed by her own Danish-West Indian
parentage, and "Passing" offers fascinating psychological insights
into issues of race and gender.
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Passing (Hardcover)
Nella Larsen
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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions
of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest
writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take
us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England
to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on
the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and
printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile
cloth and stamped with foil. Clare Kendry, elegant, fair-skinned
and ambitious, is married to a white man who is unaware of her
African-American heritage. When she reunites with childhood friend
Irene, who has not hidden her origins, both women are forced to
confront the secret fears they have buried within themselves. A
taut exploration of race and gender, Passing is one of the Harlem
Renaissance's greatest works. 'A tragic story rooted in inescapable
facts of American life' The New York Times
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Passing (Paperback)
Nella Larsen; Introduction by Brit Bennett
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Passing (Hardcover)
Christa Holm Vogelius; Nella Larsen
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Nella Larsen's distinctive and revealing novel about racial
identity set in New York in 1929. Soon to be a major motion picture
starring Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga and Alexander Skarsgard. Part
of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning,
clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon
markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for
any book lover. This edition of Passing features an introduction by
writer and academic, Christa Holm Vogelius. Irene Redfield, married
to a successful physician, enjoys a comfortable life in Harlem, New
York. Reluctantly, she renews her friendship with old school
friend, Clare Kendry. Clare, who like Irene is light skinned,
'passes' as white and is married to a racist white man who has no
idea about Clare's racial heritage. Even though Irene knows that
reigniting her friendship with Clare will lead to trouble, she
can't resist allowing Irene into her world. Irene in turn wants to
rekindle her bonds with the African American community of her
youth. As tensions mount between friends and between couples, this
taut and mesmerizing narrative spins towards an unexpected end.
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Passing (Paperback)
Nella Larsen
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Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past. Clare’s childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American community, but refuses to acknowledge the racism that continues to constrict her family’s happiness. A chance encounter forces both women to confront the lies they have told others—and the secret fears they have buried within themselves. First published in 1929, Passing is a remarkably candid exploration of shifting racial and sexual boundaries.
Throughout her short but brilliant literary career, Nell Larsen
wrote piercing dramas about the black middle class that featured
sensitive, spirited heroines struggling to find a place where they
belong. Passing is a disturbing story about the unravelling lives
of two childhood friends, one of whom turns her back on her past
and marries a white racist. Just as disquieting is the portrait in
Quicksand of biracial Helga Crane, who is unable to escape her
loneliness no matter where and with whom she lives. Race and
marriage offer few securities here or in the other stories in this
compulsively readable collection, rich in psychological
complexities and imbued with a vibrant sense of place - be it 1920s
Harlem, Chicago, or Copenhagen.
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Passing
Nella Larsen; Contributions by Mint Editions
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Quicksand (Paperback)
Nella Larsen
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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.
VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIES Celebrating the finest
works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black
arts movements in modern history. 'She could neither conform nor be
happy in her unconformity' Nella 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. Masterfully plotted and infinitely
illuminating, Quicksand and Passing are two of the finest works of
the Harlem Renaissance. 'A beloved novel from the Harlem
Renaissance that follows the fraught relationship between two
childhood friends, one who passes for white and one who chooses not
to' Brit Bennett 'Absolutely absorbing, fascinating and
indispensable' Alice Walker 'Buy the book' W. E. B. Du Bois
Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant,
fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is
unaware of her African-American heritage. When she renews her
acquaintance with her childhood friend Irene, who has not hidden
her origins, both women are forced to reassess their marriages, the
lies they have told - and to confront the secret fears they have
buried within themselves. Nella Larsen's intense, taut and
psychologically nuanced portrayal of lives and identities
dangerously colliding established her as a leading writer of
America's Harlem Renaissance. The Penguin English Library -
collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in
English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World
War.
Hypocrisy and prejudice compel a principled mulatto teacher to
desert a steady job and a socially prominent fiance.
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Passing (Paperback)
Nella Larsen
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