Young Adam
1st Grove Press Edition
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Joe is a drifter who works as a hired hand on a barge traveling the Clyde River between Glasgow and Edinburgh. As the story opens, he finds the corpse of a young woman drifting downstream. Was it an accident? Suicide? Murder? As the police investigate and arrest a suspect, it becomes apparent that Joe knew the dead woman and has more information than he's telling. Meanwhile, an unspoken attraction has developed between Joe and the wife of the barge skipper. Soon to be released as a film, this first novel by Scottish beat writer Alexander Trocchi is an absorbing existential thriller -- a lost gem of world literature reminiscent of Camus, Bukowski, and Burroughs. "Everyone should read Young Adam." -- The Times Literary Supplement "What Trocchi was about...was testing of boundaries, the eradication of acceptable behavior in the name of something more engaged." -- The Bloomsbury Review
Book information
ISBN: | 9780802139771 |
Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
Imprint: | Grove Press |
Pub date: | 25 Feb 2003 |
Edition: | 1st Grove Press Edition |
DEWEY: | 823.914 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 146 |
Weight: | 195g |
Height: | 204mm |
Width: | 141mm |
Spine width: | 12mm |