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Language: English
Published by Grove Press, 2003
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- Title
- Young Adam
- Author
- Alexander Trocchi
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Fair
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0802139779
- ISBN 13
- 9780802139771
- Item weight
- 0.38 pounds
<div>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</div>
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Praise for Alexander Trocchi and "Young Adam"
Trocchi may be the greatest unknown writer in the world . . . What Trocchi was about, in life and art, was the testing of boundaries, the eradication of acceptable behavior in the name of something more engaged. "Bloomsbury Review"
Everyone should read "Young Adam." "Times Literary Supplement"
Trocchi has the courage so essential to a writer. He writes about spirit, flesh, and death and the vision that comes through the flesh. He has been there and brought it back. William S. Burroughs
The most brilliant man I ve ever met. Allen Ginsberg
Mr. Trocchi s ideas (or, rather, his gropings toward the distant glow of ideas) are set down in prose that is always clean and sharp and often ferociously alive with poetry. "New Yorker"
[Young Adam] is rife with desire and longing, a sense that, in the physical, we might free ourselves, however temporarily, from the strictures of society. More than anything, though, it s a philosophical novel, a tautly written existential thriller. David L. Ulin, "LA Weekly"
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Praise for Alexander Trocchi and Young Adam "Trocchi may be the greatest unknown writer in the world . . . What Trocchi was about, in life and art, was the testing of boundaries, the eradication of acceptable behavior in the name of something more engaged."--Bloomsbury Review "Everyone should read Young Adam."--Times Literary Supplement "Trocchi has the courage so essential to a writer. He writes about spirit, flesh, and death and the vision that comes through the flesh. He has been there and brought it back."--William S. Burroughs "The most brilliant man I've ever met."--Allen Ginsberg "Mr. Trocchi's ideas (or, rather, his gropings toward the distant glow of ideas) are set down in prose that is always clean and sharp and often ferociously alive with poetry."--New Yorker "[Young Adam] is rife with desire and longing, a sense that, in the physical, we might free ourselves, however temporarily, from the strictures of society. More than anything, though, it's a philosophical novel, a tautly written existential thriller."--David L. Ulin, LA Weekly
Trocchi may be the greatest unknown writer in the world . . . What Trocchi was about, in life and art, was the testing of boundaries, the eradication of acceptable behavior in the name of something more engaged. "Bloomsbury Review"
Everyone should read "Young Adam." "Times Literary Supplement"
Trocchi has the courage so essential to a writer. He writes about spirit, flesh, and death and the vision that comes through the flesh. He has been there and brought it back. William S. Burroughs
The most brilliant man I ve ever met. Allen Ginsberg
Mr. Trocchi s ideas (or, rather, his gropings toward the distant glow of ideas) are set down in prose that is always clean and sharp and often ferociously alive with poetry. "New Yorker"
[Young Adam] is rife with desire and longing, a sense that, in the physical, we might free ourselves, however temporarily, from the strictures of society. More than anything, though, it s a philosophical novel, a tautly written existential thriller. David L. Ulin, "LA Weekly"
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Praise for Alexander Trocchi and Young Adam "Trocchi may be the greatest unknown writer in the world . . . What Trocchi was about, in life and art, was the testing of boundaries, the eradication of acceptable behavior in the name of something more engaged."--Bloomsbury Review "Everyone should read Young Adam."--Times Literary Supplement "Trocchi has the courage so essential to a writer. He writes about spirit, flesh, and death and the vision that comes through the flesh. He has been there and brought it back."--William S. Burroughs "The most brilliant man I've ever met."--Allen Ginsberg "Mr. Trocchi's ideas (or, rather, his gropings toward the distant glow of ideas) are set down in prose that is always clean and sharp and often ferociously alive with poetry."--New Yorker "[Young Adam] is rife with desire and longing, a sense that, in the physical, we might free ourselves, however temporarily, from the strictures of society. More than anything, though, it's a philosophical novel, a tautly written existential thriller."--David L. Ulin, LA Weekly
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