Tripticks Valerie Rouzeau a moving account of what

a moving account of what happens to the lost inner lives of the people who leave us

Zaffar Kunial

at once lyrical and heart-rending

recounting the experience of the hero Murtada when his house collapses on top of him

as a gay man

Tripticks Valerie Rouzeau a moving account of whatFirst published in 1972, Ann Quins 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.