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Three

Ann Quin

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English
Dalkey Archive Press
14 March 2006
This enigmatic novel, from one of Britain's most important writers of the post-war avant-garde, explores suicide, marriage and class.

S has disappeared from Ruth and Leonard's home in Brighton. Suicide is suspected. The couple, who had been spying on their young lodger since before the trouble, begin to pour over her diary, her audio recordings and her movies - only to discover that she had been spying on them with even greater intensity. As this disturbing, highly charged act of reciprocal voyeurism comes to light, and as the couple's fascination with S comes to dominate their already flawed marriage, what emerges is an unnerving and absorbing portrait of the taboos, emotional and sexual, that broke behind the closed doors of 1950s British life.
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Imprint:   Dalkey Archive Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 139mm,  Spine: 11mm
Weight:   190g
ISBN:   9781564782724
ISBN 10:   1564782727
Series:   British Literature
Pages:   143
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Ann Quinone of the best kept secrets of British experimental writing, has garnered comparisons to such diverse writers as Samuel Beckett and Nathalie Sarraute.The author of BergIn 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.

Reviews for Three

""A continuously interesting, beautifully written, rather venturesome novel of a literary artist... "" -- Choice ""Quin has this talent for throwing off ripples of association... her best quality, her subconscious quality."" -- Alan Burns ""Three has been made rather then begotten, and it is forever flirting with an elegant and obscure symbolism."" -- Times Literary Supplement


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