Ann Quin’s final book, “Tripticks,” is a parodic takedown of 1960s American culture that both mocks and engages seriously with the material of that culture.
” —the nature of its relationship to these American cultural touchstones is not straightforward. It’s worth noting that in 1961, in a letter to her friend Carol Burns, Quin wrote, “Simply hating ‘On the Road’—what a lot of sentimental rubbish and so tedious how it goes on and on in this phoney pseudo ‘isn’t life crazy but it’s life man’ sort of fashion.” Also worth noting: as Quin was writing “Tripticks,” she was readingThen there are the accompanying images, by the artist Carol Annand.
In “Blending Words with Pictures,” an interview with the writer Alan Burns, Annand explained that the text of “Tripticks” was already finished when she came on board to do the illustrations at Quin’s request. In fact, the book had already been accepted for publication, and so Annand had to fit her illustrations into an existing layout, hence images that frequently appear as footers, snuggled up against the pagination.
In a piece on the Web site Quarterly Conversation, Jesse Kohn, thinking through the stylistic difference between “Tripticks” and Quin’s previous novels, writes, “As a writer with three books behind her, Quin seems as eager as the No 1. X-wife to blot out the memory of her previous cohort.” Quin “flees stylistically” in “Tripticks,” Kohn argues, turning to face her previous three works in the same way that our narrator “steer[s] his car towards the incensed trio of castrating X-wives.
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