| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 45 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Penguin twentieth-century classics.
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Christine Glassman. |
| Summary |
Nella Larsen's first novel tells the story of Helga Crane, a fictional character loosely based on Larsen's own early life. Crane is the lovely and refined daughter of a Danish mother and a West Indian black father who abandons Helga and her mother soon after Helga is born. Unable to feel comfortable with any of her white-skinned relatives, Helga lives in various places in America and visits Denmark in search of people among whom she feels at home. The work is a superb psychological study of a complicated and appealing woman, Helga Crane, who, like Larsen herself, is the product of a liaison between a black man and a white woman. In one sense, Quicksand might be called an odyssey; however, instead of overcoming a series of obstacles and finally arriving at her native land, Larsen's protagonist has a series of adventures, each of which ends in disappointment. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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African American women -- Fiction.
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Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
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Danish American women -- Fiction.
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Copenhagen (Denmark) -- Fiction.
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Young women -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Bildungsromans.
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| Added Author |
Davis, Thadious M., 1944-
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982767792 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982767790 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12430188 |
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