Soon to be released as a film, this first novel by Scottish beat writer Trocchi is an absorbing existential thriller--a lost gem of world literature reminiscent of Camus, Bukowski, and Burroughs. "Everyone should read Young Adam."
Joe is a drifter who works as a hired hand on a barge traveling the Clyde River between Glasgow and Edinburgh. As the story opens, he finds the corpse of a young woman drifting downstream. Was it an accident? Suicide? Murder? As the police investigate and arrest a suspect, it...