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Tripticks / Ann Quin.
Van Pelt Library PR6067.U5 T75 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quin, Ann, 1936-1973.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consumption (Economics)--Fiction.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Women dog owners--Fiction.
- Women dog owners.
- Poodles.
- Divorced people--Fiction.
- Divorced people.
- Poodles--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 1564783189
- OCLC:
- 48967842
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