Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Quicksand, originally published in Japan as Manji (Japanese: 卍), is a novel by the Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. It was written in serial format between 1928 and 1930 for the magazine Kaizō. The last of Tanizaki's major novels translated into English, it concerns a four-way bisexual love affair between upper-crust denizens of Osaka.
Larsen wrote Quicksand during an intense American cultural nationalism, where the nation shared one culture. [4] During this period, books and essays devoted to this large period of cultural nationalism and interpretations of African American modernism were released. The majority of the novel took place in Harlem.
Larsen is most known for her two novels, Quicksand and Passing; these two pieces of work got much recognition with positive reviews. Many believed that Larsen was a rising star as an African American novelist, until she soon after left Harlem, her fame, and writing behind.
The book received the 2016 Best Swedish Crime Novel Award and the 2017 Glass Key award. Kirkus Reviews said that "Giolito gives us the unsettling monologue of a teenage girl as she works her way through her role in murder. It is a splendid work of fiction." [1]
The claim that quicksand doesn't kill is nonsense - It is rare for someone to literally drown in quicksand, in the way seen in movies, but quicksand will tend to hold a victim hard and fast - which is a problem somewhere like Morecambe because quicksand is most active on coastal estuaries where rivers flow into the sea.
Jamie Acord was walking on the first weekend of June when she instantly dropped to her waist in wet sediment at Popham Beach State Park, she recalled.
A Maine woman enjoying a walk on a popular beach learned that quicksand doesn't just happen in Hollywood movies in jungles or rainforests. Jamie Acord was walking at the water's edge at Popham ...
Quicksand (Swedish: Störst av allt) is a Swedish psychology-crime drama television series, based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Malin Persson Giolito. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first season, consisting of six episodes, was released on 5 April 2019 on Netflix and is its first Swedish-language series.