About this title: Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady, unfortunately widowed young. But her story is unsettlingly at odds with her image. It is a tale of infatuation and deceit, of eliberate evil. Its theme is humiliation, its victim Sonoko's mild-mannered husband. At is centre - seductive, manipulating, enslaving - is one of Tanizaki's most extraordinary ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780394585475ISBN:039458547X
Description: Good in Good jacket. 46-W Ex-library. Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 1994-01-25
ISBN-13:9780394585475ISBN:039458547X
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780394585475ISBN:039458547X
Description: Good. Reliable paperback edition. Some shelf wear to the covers. The text flows clearly from beginning to end. Tight binding! This edition is PRESENTABLE. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780679760221ISBN:0679760229
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. Book is in excellent condition. Cover and pages are clean, binding is tight. We ship daily, Satisfaction Guaranteed. read more
Edition: 1st ed.: Advance copy. Uncorrected Proof, in tan printed
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Knopf, NY
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780394585475ISBN:039458547X
Description: Fine to very fine copy. Text has no writing, no highlighting, no inscriptions, etc.; no remainder marks. NOT BC ed; NOT ex-lib. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 1995-07-01
ISBN-13:9780679760221ISBN:0679760229
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780679760221. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780679760221ISBN:0679760229
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780099485612ISBN:0099485613
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Edition: First Edition Thus
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780394585475ISBN:039458547X
Description: Fine. First US edition. Advance copy: Uncorrected Proof in tan printed wrappers [trade sized paperback format, but of the hardcover edition]. Fine copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf, NY
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780394585475ISBN:039458547X
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 039458547X. Translated from the Japanese by Howard Hibbett. First American edition. Remainder mark on top edge, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. read more
Binding: Trade pb
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 07/1995
ISBN-13:9780679760221ISBN:0679760229
Description: Fine. No dust jacket, as issued. like new. Unknown printing. 0. 69" x 8. 03" x 5. 20". stated 1st edition indicated 1st printing read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780394585475ISBN:039458547X
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Hardcover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First US Edition. Translated into English from original Japanese by Howard Hibbett. Fine/Fine. Hardcover; cloth backed decorative boards; red gilt titles; 224 pp.; clean and crisp. Protected in an archival Brodart cover. read more
"Originally serialized starting in the '20s and finally published in 1947, Tanizaki gives us an amazing, dark twisting story of sexual obsession and mind games. Elegantly and often chillingly told without lurid details. Recommended."
"A sexual thriller with deep cultural under- and overtones. The first impression is that Quicksand is masterfully plotted, like a cheap thriller, with chapter ending cliffhangers and steadily mounting (and increasingly implausible) plot twists; but instead of rendering the book a piece of gripping trash, the implausible plot twists transport the book into higher meaning(s) in its portrayal of culture clash, specifically the pull of "old Japan" in the modern world of modern desires.
It's a book of seduction, lesbian seduction at that, in which a bored housewife takes up with a fellow art student and chapter by chapter sinks into the quicksand of her bottomless and devious desires powered by a darkly magnetic sex appeal; pulling down not only the housewife, but her husband, a hapless impotent, a housekeeper, and probably even others beyond the specific scope of the book.
But what starts as specifically sexual enthrallment by the end becomes literally demonic, as the whole mythic death-worshipping Japanese psyche destroys the housewife's life, her lover and husband dead, leaving her alive but stranded and empty in the "new Japan", weeping."
"Societal pressure to be one thing when one wishes to be another is more common to different cultures than I realized years ago when I read this book. And somehow the characters we love (to hate?) the most are those that defy the norms, for better or worse."
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