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ISBN10: 1911508938
ISBN13: 9781911508939
Publisher: And Other Stories
Published: Feb 2 2021
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781911508939
Publisher: And Other Stories
Published: Feb 2 2021
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
A book of voices, landscapes and seasons, Ann Quin's newly republished novel mirrors the multiplicity of meanings of the very word 'passage'--of music, of time, and of life itself. A woman, accompanied by her lover, searches for her lost brother, who may have been a revolutionary, and who may have been tortured, imprisoned or killed. Roving through a Mediterranean landscape, they live out their entangled existences, reluctant to give up, afraid of the outcome.
Reflecting the schizophrenia of its characters, the novel splits into alternating passages, switching between the sister and her lover's perspective. The lover's passages are also fractured, taking the form of a diary with notes alongside the entries. An intricate system of repetition and relation builds across the passages. 'All seasons passed through before the pattern formed, collected in parts.'
Erotic and tense, in Quin's compelling third novel the author allowed her writing freer rein than before, and created a work ahead of its time: her most poetic, evocative and mysterious novel yet.
Erotic and tense, in Quin's compelling third novel the author allowed her writing freer rein than before, and created a work ahead of its time: her most poetic, evocative and mysterious novel yet.
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