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.