Bibliograph

Young adam, a novel, Alexander Trocchi and David L. Ulin

Type

Label

Young adam, a novel, Alexander Trocchi and David L. Ulin

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Young adam

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Alexander Trocchi and David L. Ulin

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Young Adam tells the story of Joe, a drifter who works on a barge traveling the Clyde River between Glasgow and Edinburgh. As the novel opens, Joe finds the corpse of a young woman floating in the water. Was it an accident, a suicide, or murder? As the police investigate and arrest a suspect, it becomes clear that Joe knows far more than he's telling. Originally published in 1954, Young Adam was made into a film starring Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton, and is now reissued with an introduction by PEN finalist and literary critic David L. Ulin. This is a psychologically suspenseful novel and an absorbing portrait of a haunted man, from an iconoclastic Beat writer praised by the New Yorker for "prose that is always clean and sharp and often ferociously alive with poetry" and called "the most brilliant man I ever met" by Allen Ginsberg

Target audience

adult

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