Ann Quin

Ann Quin's wildest, funniest, freakiest, kinkiest, and best novel - a road-trip novel, a graphic novel, a spy novel, a Beat novel, an anti-novel - is available again to inspire a new generation of mavericks. 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 man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father... So begins Ann Quin's first novel, a debut so staggeringly superior to most you'll never forget it - The Guardian. Alistair Berg, hair restorer, shares a mistress with his father. He decides to eliminate his rival. After mutilating a ventriloquist's...

This enigmatic novel, from one of Britain's most important writers of the post-war avant-garde, explores suicide, marriage and class. Three opens with the disappearance at sea, possibly suicide, of a young woman, identified only as S. A middle-aged couple, Ruth and Leonard, had been spying on their young lodger in their summer house by the sea, and now begin to...

All seasons passed through before the pattern formed, collected in parts. A book of voices, landscapes and seasons, Ann Quin's newly republished novel mirrors the multiplicity of meanings of the very word passage—of music, of time, and of life itself. A woman, accompanied by her lover, searches for her lost brother, who may have been a revolutionary, and who may...