Tripticks

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.