Tripticks

Quin's spare prose line--delphic, obscure and hauntingly suggestive--creates a comparably vertiginous kind of enchantment. To submit to this unique book's spell is to experience, in language, a 'fantastic dance of images, shapes, forms.' --Sam Sack, Wall Street Journal Quin works over a small area with the finest of tools. Every page, every word gives evidence of her care and workmanship. --New York Times Quin's prose never falters; it's stunning. --Paris Review Quin was a writer ahead of her time. --Publishers Weekly Vividly intense and almost palpably immediate. --Irish Times Quin uses carefully crafted imagery to stimulate the reader's subconscious. --Booklist Quin tosses out hefty dashes of mordant humour and caustic wit. --Library Journal I suspect that Ann Quin will eventually be viewed, alongside B. S. Johnson and Alexander Trocchi, as one of the few mid-century British novelists who actually, in the long term, matter. --Tom McCarthy Ann Quin is a master painter of interiors, of voices that mosaic as they catch the light at strange, stirring angles. --Chloe Aridjis Quin's militant refusal to compromise flavours her writing: you either take her on her own terms, or not at all. Richer and stranger than the satisfactions of mainstream fiction. --Jonathan Coe Quin understood she was on to something new. --Deborah Levy One of our greatest ever novelists. Ann Quin's was a new British working-class voice that had not been heard before: it was artistic, modern, and--dare I say it--ultimately European. --Lee Rourke One of Britain's most adventurous post-war writers. Psychologically dark and sexually daring. --Juliet Jacques Rare enough is a book that begins by stating its intention--rarer still one that proceeds to do seemingly everything it can to avoid following the path its intention has laid. --Danielle Dutton