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Young Adam by Alexander Trocchi · Booklabria

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Young Adam

MurderPsychological

Young Adam

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First published: 1966
Language: English
Editions: 7

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: Murder
Psychological
Scotland
Alienation
Murder in fiction
Drifters
Set in: Scotland

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