Young Adam
By: Alexander Trocchi ; introduced by John Pringle.
Edition: 1st Grove Press ed.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Barges -- Fiction.; Drifters -- Fiction.; Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction.; Scotland -- Fiction.; Clyde River Valley (Scotland) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Joe is a drifter who works as a hired hand on a barge traveling the Clyde River between Glasgow and Edinburgh. As Young Adam opens, Joe finds the corpse of a young woman floating in the water. Was it an accident, a suicide, or was she murdered? As the police investigate and arrest a suspect, Trocchi's haunting novel reveals that Joe knows far more than he's telling. Meanwhile, confined in the claustrophobic space of the barge, an unspoken attraction develops between Joe and the wife of the barge skipper.