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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''



Trade Review
A riveting tale of malevolent corruption fatally masked by a terrible and deceptive beauty: fatal attraction in a 1920s Japanese setting * Kirkus Reviews *
Quicksand reads like a mixture of James Cain and Vladimir Nabokov and teases us with forbidden pleasures * Washington Times *
A harrowing black comedy of love and death * Chicago Tribune *
Beautifully and mysteriously contrived * Newsday *

Quicksand

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    A Paperback / softback by Junichiro Tanizaki, Kristen Roupenian

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: 17/11/1994
      ISBN13: 9780099485612, 978-0099485612
      ISBN10: 0099485613

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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''



      Trade Review
      A riveting tale of malevolent corruption fatally masked by a terrible and deceptive beauty: fatal attraction in a 1920s Japanese setting * Kirkus Reviews *
      Quicksand reads like a mixture of James Cain and Vladimir Nabokov and teases us with forbidden pleasures * Washington Times *
      A harrowing black comedy of love and death * Chicago Tribune *
      Beautifully and mysteriously contrived * Newsday *

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