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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Quin, Ann, 1936-1973, author.
Imprint:	Sheffield ; New York : And Other Stories, 2020.
Description:	x, 143 pages ; 20 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction. Suicidal behavior -- Fiction. Missing persons -- Fiction. Boardinghouses -- Fiction. Boardinghouses. Missing persons. Suicidal behavior. Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction. Psychological fiction. Psychological fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12448036

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ISBN:	9781911508847 1911508849
Notes:	Originally published: 1969.
Summary:	Three opens with the death of a young woman, identified only as S, possibly a suicide. Following her death, Ruth and Leonard -- a middle-aged British couple whose marriage has devolved into pithy and bitter conversations -- review the time S spent at their summer house. In a lyrical prose style likened to that of such diverse writers as Virginia Woolf and William Burroughs, Ann Quin presents the enigmatic intricacies of the relationship between these three people by blending the conversations and flashbacks of Ruth and Leonard with the diary, audiotapes and movies S left behind. A combination of laconic dialogue and poetic impressions, Three is an incisive exploration of the emotional and sexual undercurrents of British middle-class life.

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Summary:	S has disappeared from Ruth and Leonard's home in Brighton. Suicide is suspected. The couple, who had been spying on their young lodger since before the trouble, begin to pour over her diary, her audio recordings and her movies - only to discover that she had been spying on them with even greater intensity. As this disturbing, highly charged act of reciprocal voyeurism comes to light, and as the couple's fascination with S comes to dominate their already flawed marriage, what emerges is an unnerving and absorbing portrait of the taboos, emotional and sexual, that broke behind the closed doors of 1950s British life.
Item Description:	Originally published: 1969.
Physical Description:	x, 143 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:	9781911508847 1911508849