Young Adam - Softcover
The corpse of a young woman is found floating in a canal by a drifter working on a barge travelling between Glasgow and Edinburgh. His relationship with the dead woman gradually unfolds as claustrophobic tensions develop between him and the couple he shares the cramped barge space with. Slowly but surely the reader is sucked into the disturbed psyche of Trocchi's rootless anti-hero.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author:
Alexander Trocchi (1925 1984) was a Scottish novelist whose numerous works include Cain’s Book. He resided mainly in Paris and New York throughout his life. He was an editor of the literary journal Merlin, which published works by Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others.
David L. Ulin is the author, most recently, of the novel Ear to the Ground. His other books include Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, and The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time. A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, he spent ten years as book editor and book critic of the Los Angeles Times.
Review:
David L. Ulin is the author, most recently, of the novel Ear to the Ground. His other books include Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, and The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time. A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, he spent ten years as book editor and book critic of the Los Angeles Times.
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
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherCanongate Books Ltd
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0862419050
- ISBN 13 9780862419059
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages168
- Rating
Buy New
Learn more about this copy
US$ 41.95
Shipping:
US$ 5.00
Within U.S.A.
Other Popular Editions of the Same Title
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
Young Adam
Published by
Canongate Books
(2001)
ISBN 10: 0862419050
ISBN 13: 9780862419059
New
Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 150515026
Buy New
US$ 41.95
Convert currency