Re:Quin (First edition.)

The influential, daring, and lacerating novels of Ann Quin were very much products of their timebut Quin herself had more than a little influence upon shaping the era in which she lived.Her works bracket the 60s and embrace their drive to experiment and break through to another form of consciousness, and so another means of telling stories, as J.

G. Ballard, and B. S. Johnson were doing, and as, laterin many ways following directly in Quins footstepsKathy Acker would as well.In reading Quin we are taught to question the very enterprise of fiction itself; to read Quin one must be prepared to lose ones way.

Re: Quin is an unabashedly personal and partisan critical biography of one of the greatest and yet most neglected fiction writers of the so-called experimental wave of British novelists of the 1960s.