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Alexander Trocchi was one of the seminal beat figures. Born in Scotland, he made his way in Paris and New York, and Young Adam is one of his most important works. Joe is a drifter who works as a hired hand on a barge traveling the Clyde River between Glasgow and Edinburgh. As...
Young Adam
Soon to be released as a film, this first novel by Scottish beat writer Trocchi is an absorbing existential thriller--a lost gem of world literature reminiscent of Camus, Bukowski, and Burroughs. "Everyone should read Young Adam."
Young Adam
First published in 1957, this was Trocchi's first novel. The corpse of a young woman is found floating in the canal. Tension develops between the narrator and his companions as his relationship with the woman unfolds, sucking the reader into his disturbed psyche.
Young Adam
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...
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