Author Description

<p>"Quin's prose never falters; it's stunning." --<i>The Paris Review</i></p> <p>This new collection of rare and unpublished writing by the cult 1960s author explores the risks and seductions of going over the edge. The stories cut an alternative path across innovative twentieth-century writing, bridging the world of Virginia Woolf and Anna Kavan with that of Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus.</p> <p><b>Ann Quin</b> (b. 1936, Brighton) was a British writer. Prior to her death in 1973, she lived between Brighton, London, and the US, publishing four novels: <i>Berg</i> (1964), <i>Three</i> (1966), <i>Passages</i> (1969), and <i>Tripticks</i> (1972).</p>