num_pages: 192
description: 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.
language: English
title: Tripticks
titlecomplete: Tripticks (British Literature)
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Womens, Novels, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 184
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press