Young Adam (Oneworld Modern Classics)

by Alexander Trocchi (Author), Alexander Trocchi (Author), Stewart Home (Introduction)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $5.83

  Trocchi's narrator is an outsider; a drifter working for the skipper of a barge. Together they discover a young woman's corpse floating in the canal. Tensions increase in cramped confines with the narrator's highly charged seduction of the skipper's wife. Compulsively readable, this is no ordinary thriller. It challenges conventional morality. The certainty of events and their meaning is far from objective.

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  Paperback
  1999

  $5.99

  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.