{"product_id":"9781913505400","title":"Tripticks","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJOSH'S PICK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnn Quin’s road novel! Feminist, experimental, illustrated, this won an infamous literary prize for ‘the best writing under the influence’, the drug in question being a 70s version of birth control. Quin’s mostly interested here in taking the piss out of hyper-sentimental male Beat poets. She keeps the laughs coming. Some believe this to be the greatest novel ever written, (my hand’s up). - JC\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFirst published in 1972, Ann Quin’s fourth and final novel was a radical break from the introspective style she had developed in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eThree\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003ePassages\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e: a declaration of independence from all expectations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrashly experimental, ribald, and hilarious, \u003ci\u003eTripticks\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSplattering 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback | 192 pages | 5.10\" x 7.80\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ann Quin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45095332249832,"sku":"9781913505400X","price":24.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0386\/5896\/5549\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c4935c6d-e4a2-4840-82bf-4b75f3de9a2a.jpg?v=1699434258","url":"https:\/\/typebooks.live\/products\/9781913505400","provider":"TYPE Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}