The unmapped country : stories and fragments

This new collection of rare and unpublished writing by the cult 1960s author Ann Quin explores the risks and seductions of going over the edge.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. Book jacket This new collection of rare and unpublished writing by the cult 1960s author explores the risks and seductions of going over the edge.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. Ann Quin (b. 1936, Brighton) was a British writer. Prior to her death in 1973, she lived between Brighton, London, and the US, publishing four novels: Berg (1964), Three (1966), Passages (1969), and Tripticks (1972). Introduction / By Jennifer Hodgson -- Leaving School-- Xi -- Nude And Seascape -- A Double Room -- Every Cripple Has His Own Way Of Walking -- B.b.'s Second Manifesto -- Untitled (neh Man It's Like This) -- Living In The Present (with Robert Sward) -- Tripticks -- Never Trust A Man Who Bathes With His Fingernails -- Eyes That Watch Behind The Wind -- Ghostworm -- Motherlogue -- The Unmapped Country -- One Day In The Life Of A Writer. Ann Quin ; Edited And Introduced By Jennifer Hodgson.