Ann Quin Books

This enigmatic novel, from one of Britain's most important writers of the post-war avant-garde, explores suicide, marriage and class.

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.

The much-anticipated republication of Ann Quin's masterpiece of post-war British fiction: caustic, thrilling, unforgettable.

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." Two characters move through the book--a woman in search of her brother, and her lover (a masculine reflection of herself) in search of himself. 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.

One of the few mid-century British novelists who actually, in the long term, matter.' Tom McCarthy 'Ann Quin is a master painter of interiors, of voices that mosaic as they catch the light at strange, stirring angles.' Chloe Aridjis'Quin understood she was on to something new and she took herself seriously, in the right way; she had a serious sense of her literary purpose.' Deborah Levy'She is one of our greatest ever novelists. Ann Quin's was a new British working-class voice that had not been heard before: it was artistic, modern, and dare I say it ultimately European.' The Guardian'Quin works over a small area with the finest of tools... every page, every word gives evidence of her care and workmanship.' New York Times