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Passages (British Literature Series). Ann Quin (1936-1973) was a British writer noted for her experimental style.

Passages (British Literature Series). 1564782794 (ISBN13: 9781564782793). The author of Berg (1964), Three (1966), Passages (1969) and Tripticks (1972), she committed suicide in 1973 at the age of 37. Quin came from a working-class family and was educated at the Convent of the Blessed Sacrament. She trained as a shorthand typist and worked in a solicitor's office, then at a publishing company Ann Quin (1936-1973) was a British writer noted for her experimental style.

A poetic book of voices, landscapes and the passing of time, Ann Quin's finely wrought novel reflects the multiple meanings of the very word passages.

A poetic book of voices, landscapes and the passing of time, Ann Quin's finely wrought novel reflects the multiple meanings of the very word "passages.

British Literature Series. By (author) Ann Quin. A poetic book of voices, landscapes and the passing of time, Ann Quin's finely wrought novel reflects the multiple meanings of the very word "passages. The form of the novel, reflecting the schizophrenia of the characters, is split into two sections-a narrative, and a diary annotated with those thoughts that provoked the entries.

Ann Quin (born 17 March 1936 in Brighton, Sussex – ? August 1973) was a British writer noted for her experimental style. In the 21st century, Stewart Home has written in admiration of her work, which remains largely overlooked, although Berg was adapted for film in 1989 as Killing Dad, starring Denholm Elliott and Richard E. Grant.

First published in 1972, British author Ann Quin's Tripticks now makes its . Quin (1936-1973) was a writer ahead of her time; 30 years later, this book still feels fresh and exciting and should win her some new fans. debut (her Passages will appear in fall 2002). Disjointed and surreal, it evokes some of the more experimental Beat writers as it tracks its narrator's trip across America. From Library Journal. The narrator of British novelist Quin's 30-year-old novel, a youngish man being tailed by his "first X-wife" and her "schoolboy gigolo," takes the reader on a long, winding road trip full of potholes and twists.

Ann Quin, one of the best kept secrets of British experimental writing, has garnered comparisons to such diverse writers as Samuel Beckett and Nathalie Sarraute. Before her death in 1973, she published four novels, including "Berg" and "Passages". In 1964 she became the first female recipient of the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship which allowed her to travel to the . a trip that provided the basis for "Tripticks". Series: British Literature.

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American literature has its own Romantic period, but typically when one speaks of Romanticism, one is referring to this great and diverse age of British literature, perhaps the most popular and well-known of all literary ages. This era includes the works of such juggernauts as Wordsworth, Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, Charles Lamb, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, Jane Austen, and Mary Shelley.

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