Tripticks Av Ann Quin

<p>First published in 1972, Ann Quin’s fourth and final novel was a radical break from the introspective style she had developed in <i>Three</i> and <i>Passages</i>: a declaration of independence from all expectations. </p><p>Brashly experimental, ribald, and hilarious, <i>Tripticks</i> maps new territories for the novel – aspiring to a form of pop art via the drawings of the artist Carol Annand and anticipating the genre-busting work of Kathy Acker through collage and gory satire. </p><p>Splattering its pages with the story of a man being chased across a nightmarish America by his ‘first X-wife’ and her ‘schoolboy gigolo’, <i>Tripticks</i> was ground zero for the collision of punk energy with high style.</p>