num_pages: 336
description: This riveting tale of compulsion and murder bears comparison in its inexorability to Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me . 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.
language: English
title: Portrait of a Young Man Drowning
titlecomplete: Portrait of a Young Man Drowning
genres: Suspense, Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 192
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company