In the four novels she published during her lifetime, Ann Quin made increasingly extreme experiments with language and form while pursuing a set of deeply felt and distinctive personal concerns. To some extent, her fiction continued the modernist project of developing style and structure in an attempt to achieve a closer fidelity to the moment-by-moment texture of lived experience; yet, she was also moving toward a postmodernist practice of producing texts comprising fragmentary echoes of other texts. Along with Alan Burns, Eva Figes, and B. S. Johnson, Quin was one of the writers who helped to extend the boundaries of the British novel in the 1960s and perhaps to prepare the ground for the increased variety of British fiction in the 1980s and 1990s. In The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Summer 1985), Figes recalled how she, Quin, Burns, and Johnson "had very different talents and preoccupations, but we shared...