First published in 1972, Ann Quin’s fourth and final novel was a radical break from the introspective style she had developed in
Three
and
Passages
: a declaration of independence from all expectations.
Brashly experimental, ribald, and hilarious,
Tripticks
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.
Splattering its pages with the story of a man being chased across a nightmarish America by his “first X-wife,” and her “schoolboy gigolo,” Tripticks was ground zero for the collision of punk energy with high style.