- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (xxii, 278 pages)
- Summary
- "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."--Jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Intimation of things distant
- Alternative Title
- Intimation of things distant
- Wrong man.
- Freedom.
- Sanctuary.
- Quicksand.
- Passing.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction.
- Short stories, American.
- Bildungsromans.
- Note
- "Originally titled An intimation of things distant"--Cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. xxii).
- Reproduction (note)
- System Details (note)
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Processing Action (note)
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Foreword / Marita Golden -- Introduction / Charles R. Lawson -- The wrong man -- Freedom -- Sanctuary -- Quicksand -- Passing -- Nella Larson, a chronology.
- ISBN
- 9780307757166 (electronic bk.)
- 0307757161 (electronic bk.)
- OCLC
- Author
Larsen, Nella.
- Title
The complete fiction of Nella Larsen [electronic resource] / edited and with an introduction by Charles R. Larson ; with a foreword by Marita Golden.
- Imprint
New York : Anchor Books, 2001.
- Edition
Anchor Books ed.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxii).
- Access
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
- Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
- System Details
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
- Processing Action
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Larson, Charles R.
Golden, Marita.
OverDrive, Inc.
- Added Title
Wrong man.
Freedom.
Sanctuary.
Quicksand.
Passing.
- Other Form:
Print version: Larsen, Nella. Intimation of things distant. Complete fiction of Nella Larsen. Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 2001 0385721005 (DLC) 2002265653 (OCoLC)48491513
- Branch Call Number
eNYPL Book