Portrait of a young man drowning
By: Charles Perry.
Series: Old school books
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Mothers and sons -- Fiction.; Young men -- Fiction.; Violence -- Fiction.; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Description: Charles Perry's only novel is a riveting tale of compulsion and murder, set in the world of Brooklyn gangsters and juvenile delinquents. Caught in a whirlpool of street crime and Oedipal passion, the narrator Harold Odom is driven by circumstances into acts of self-destruction and twisted sexuality.