Title: Portrait of a young man drowning
First published: 1962
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Mothers and sons, Violence, Young men, Fiction, general, New york (n.y.), fiction, Juvenile delinquency, Gangsters, Psychology
Places: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)