Tripticks

Author: Ann Quin
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
ISBN: 9781564783189
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
"Ann Quin's Tripticks offers an episodic 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."--Jacket.

The Experimentalists

Author: Joseph Darlington
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350244406
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
The Experimentalists is a collective biography, capturing the life and times of the British experimental writers of the swinging 1960s. A decade of research, including as-yet unopened archives and interviews with the writers' colleagues, is brought together to produce a comprehensive history of this ill-starred group of renegade writers. Whether the bolshie B.S. Johnson, the globetrotting Ann Quin, the cerebral Christine Brooke-Rose, or the omnipresent Anthony Burgess, these writers each brought their own unique contributions to literature at a time uniquely open to their iconoclastic message. The journey connects historical moments from Bletchley Park, to Paris May '68, to terrorist groups of the 1970s. A tale of love, loss, friendship and a shared vision, this book is a fascinating insight into a bold, provocative and influential group of writers whose collective story has gone untold, until now.

Passages

Author: Ann Quin
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564782793
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description
"Mirroring the schizophrenic nature of the characters, the text is broken up into alternating sections of narrative and diary entries. The lyrical nature of the prose counters this fragmentation, as resonances develop amid "cut-up" dreams and fantasies in a fashion similar to a musical composition."--BOOK JACKET.

Three

Author: Ann Quin
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN: 9780714500652
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143

Book Description
-- Ruth and Leonard's young female boarder, S., disappears under circumstances that suggest suicide. As the couple pours over her diary, audio tapes, and movies, their obsession with the enigmatic young girl takes over their relationship. Three combines laconic dialogue with poetic impressionism in an incisive exploration of the hidden emotions and sexual undercurrents of the British middle class.

Re: Quin

Author: Robert Buckeye
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1564789896
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 69

Book Description
The influential, daring, and lacerating novels of Ann Quin were very much products of their time—but Quin herself had more than a little influence upon shaping the era in which she lived. Her works bracket the '60s and embrace their drive to experiment and break through to another form of consciousness, and so another means of telling stories, as J. G. Ballard, and B. S. Johnson were doing, and as, later—in many ways following directly in Quin's footsteps—Kathy Acker would as well. In reading Quin we are taught to question the very enterprise of fiction itself; to read Quin one must be prepared to lose one's way. Re: Quin is an unabashedly personal and partisan critical biography of one of the greatest and yet most neglected fiction writers of the so-called "experimental" wave of British novelists of the 1960s.

The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

Author: Nick Hubble
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1623563852
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1970s shape Contemporary British Fiction? Exploring the impact of events like the Cold War, miners' strikes and Winter of Discontent, this volume charts the transition of British fiction from post-war to contemporary. Chapters outline the decade's diversity of writing, showing how the literature of Ian McEwan and Ian Sinclair interacted with the experimental work of B.S. Johnson. Close contextual readings of Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish and English novels map the steady break-up of Britain. Tying the popularity of Angela Carter and Fay Weldon to the growth of the Women's Liberation Movement and calling attention to a new interest in documentary modes of autobiographical writing, this volume also examines the rising resonance of the marginal voices: the world of 1970s British Feminist fiction and postcolonial and diasporic writers. Against a backdrop of social tensions, this major critical reassessment of the 1970s defines, explores and better understands the criticism and fiction of a decade marked by the sense of endings.

Berg

Author: Ann Quin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911508540
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
The much-anticipated republication of Ann Quin's masterpiece of post-war British fiction: caustic, thrilling, unforgettable.

Review of Contemporary Fiction

Author: John O'Brien
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564783363
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Joseph Dewey, "Rick Moody" Brian Evenson & Joanna Howard, "Ann Quin" Zachary Hammerman, Ed., "Casebook Study of Silas Flannery"

The Unmapped Country

Author: Ann Quin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911508151
Category : FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description

An American Triptych

Author: Wendy Martin
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807841129
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
Traces the lives of three American women, Puritan, Victorian, and modern, and compares the themes and philosophy of their poetry