This writer, says scarecrow's Lee Rourke, "is the forgotten gem of the British experimentalists. Forget B.S. Johnson: why, oh why, isn't there a Biography of her remarkable life?" Before her death in 1973, Quin wrote four "mouth-wateringly beautiful, wonderful books": Tripticks, Passage, Three, and Berg. This last was made into the 1989 film Killing Dad.
More about Ann Quin
+ Giles Gordon on reading Berg
+ Quin's page at the Complete Review (loads of links)
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