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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.
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Ann Quin
Introduced by Joshua Cohen
Three is the second of the four brilliant and enigma-ridden novels that Ann Quin published before drowning off the coast of Brighton in 1973 at the age of 37. The mysterious character S – the absent protagonist or anti-heroine-hypotenuse of this love-triangle tale – dies in similar fashion … or perhaps she’s stabbed to death by a gang of nameless faceless men before her body washes up onshore … or perhaps the stabbed-dead-body that washes up onshore is someone else … It’s difficult to tell. And the telling is difficult too. And I would submit that it’s precisely these difficulties that make this gory story normal.
A British married couple, a dyad of faux-boho normies, provide the other two points of Three’s ménage. Their names are Ruth (sometimes Ruthey, sometimes just R) and Leonard (sometimes Leon, sometimes just L). They take up with this young woman referred to only as S, who comes to share their summer-vacation cottage and their lives, her family-role ever-shifting from boarder-daughter to sister to lover.