Passages
Published on 2. February 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-911508-93-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 have been tortured, imprisoned or killed. Roving through a Mediterranean landscape, they live out their entangled existences, reluctant to give up, afraid of the outcome. Erotic and tense, in Quin's compelling third novel the author allowed her writing freer rein than before and created a work ahead of its time: her most poetic, evocative and mysterious novel yet.
Reviews / Votes
'Passages stirred up a certain kind of curiosity that I hadn't felt kindling in me for so long. It's almost like the omnipotent curiosity one burns with as an adolescent - sexual, solipsistic, melancholic, fierce, hungry, languorous - and without limit.' Claire-Louise Bennett'To read Passages is to look down through clear water. It's absolutely lucid and blindingly reflective. It moves and you don't know how deep it goes. Perhaps there's a body down there. Perhaps it's your own.' Joanna Walsh
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Language
English
Place of publication
High Wycombe
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
116 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-911508-93-9 (9781911508939)
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Ann Quin (1936-1973) was a working-class writer from Brighton, England. She was at the forefront of British experimentalism in the 1960s along with BS Johnson and Alan Burns, and also lived in the US in the mid-sixties, working closely with US writers and poets including Robert Creeley. Prior to her death in 1973, she published four novels: Berg (1964), Three (1966), Passages (1969) and Tripticks (1972). A collection of short stories and the fragment of her unfinished last novel, The Unmapped Country (edited by Jennifer Hodgson), was published by And Other Stories to great acclaim in 2018. Quin's novel Berg was republished by And Other Stories in 2019, to be followed by Three in 2020 and her remaining novels in subsequent years.