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TripticksAuthor: Ann Quin British Literature Series July 2002 192 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 paperback, 1-56478-318-9 Retail Paperback Price: Our Paperback Price: $11.96 
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Book Description
As innovative and abrasive as the very best of William Burroughs, Ann Quin's Tripticks offers a scattered account of the narrator's flight across a surreal American landscape, pursued by his "No. 1 X-wife" and her new lover. This masterpiece of pre-punk aesthetics critiques the hypocrisy and consumerism of modern culture while spoofing the "typical" maladjusted family, which in this case includes a father who made his money in ballpoint pens and a mother whose life revolves around her overpampered, all-demanding poodle. Stylistically, this is Quin's most daring work, prefiguring the formal inventiveness of Kathy Acker.About the Author
| Ann Quin, one of the best kept secrets of British experimental writing, has garnered comparisons to such diverse writers as Samuel Beckett and Nathalie Sarraute. Before her death in 1973, she published four novels, including Berg and Passages. In 1964 she became the first female recipient of the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship which allowed her to travel to the U.S., a trip that provided the basis for Tripticks. |
Praise
"Ann Quin has abandoned . . . stream-of-consciousness . . . for a verbal continuum somewhere between ambidextrous punpricks, Joycean parody and sub-Burrovian cut-uppery."—Books and Bookmen"A vividly intense and almost palpably immediate work of imagination."—Irish Times
"The style is eclectic enough to remind the reader of the New Wave, Beckett, Pinter, and Freud with a headache."—Library Journal