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.
Tripticks (British Literature)
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Author(s)Ann Quin
PublisherDalkey Archive Press
ISBN / ASIN1564783189
ISBN-139781564783189
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank2,598,533
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸