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Set in the world of Brooklyn gangsters and juvenile delinquents, Portrait of a Young Man Drowning reveals a character caught in a whirlpool of street crime and Oedipal passion, driven by circumstances beyond his control into acts of self-destruction and twisted sexuality.
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Charles Perry's only novel is a riveting tale of compulsion and murder, set in the world of Brooklyn gangsters and juvenile delinquents. Caught in a whirlpool of street crime and Oedipal passion, the narrator Harold Odom is driven by circumstances into acts of self-destruction and twisted sexuality.
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In the world of Brooklyn gansters and juvenile delinquents, Harold Odum is driven by the circumstances of his life into acts of self-destruction and twisted sexuality.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0393314626
- ISBN 13 9780393314625
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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