{"product_id":"quicksand","title":"Quicksand","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEverywhere she is watched, prized, and made a stranger. Nowhere can she be wholly herself.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNot yet released.\u003c\/strong\u003e This edition is finished and in production. Write to the press and we will let you know the day it goes on sale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1928, \u003cem\u003eQuicksand\u003c\/em\u003e is Nella Larsen’s incandescent first novel and one of the essential works of the Harlem Renaissance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHelga Crane, the daughter of a Danish mother and a West Indian father, is beautiful, intelligent and restless, forever moving in search of a place where she can simply belong: from a Black college in the American South, to the glitter of Harlem, to the white society of her relatives in Copenhagen, and back again. Spare, sensuous and unsparing, \u003cem\u003eQuicksand\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterwork of longing and entrapment, and a piercing study of a woman caught between worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLarsen was the first Black woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship for creative writing. The complete 1928 novel, all twenty-five chapters, with her original dedication and Langston Hughes epigraph preserved, freshly typeset behind an original mixed media cover illustration by JVB Atelier Designs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNella Larsen (1891–1964)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe complete 1928 novel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNorthlume Classic Library\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 150 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"JVB Atelier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44696854691882,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0228\/4330\/files\/quicksand.jpg?v=1786816293","url":"https:\/\/northlume.org\/products\/quicksand","provider":"Northlume ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}