Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 17/11/1994
ISBN: 9780099485612
Length: 192 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm
Weight: 138g
RRP: £8.99
A seductive psychological thriller about obsession, jealousy and deceit, and a Japanese classic
Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady in an uninspiring marriage. When she decides to take an art class in town she meets the extraordinary Mitsuko, a woman as beautiful and charismatic as she is cunning. They begin a passionate affair and Sonoko soon finds herself infatuated by Mitsuko, and ensnared in a web of sex, humiliation and deceit.
With an introduction by Kristen Roupenian, author of 'Cat Person'
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 17/11/1994
ISBN: 9780099485612
Length: 192 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm
Weight: 138g
RRP: £8.99
A riveting tale of malevolent corruption fatally masked by a terrible and deceptive beauty: fatal attraction in a 1920s Japanese setting
Quicksand reads like a mixture of James Cain and Vladimir Nabokov and teases us with forbidden pleasures
A harrowing black comedy of love and death
Beautifully and mysteriously contrived
"Quicksand reads like a mixture of James Cain and Vladimir Nabokov [and] teases us with forbidden pleasures"