Young Adam

A compelling existential thriller by the Beat-era writer: "e;Everyone should read Young Adam"e; (The Times Literary Supplement). Young Adam tells the story of Joe, a drifter who works on a barge traveling the Clyde River between Glasgow and Edinburgh. As the novel opens, Joe finds the corpse of a young woman floating in the water. Was it an accident, a suicide, or murder? As the police investigate and arrest a suspect, it becomes clear that Joe knows far more than he's telling. Originally published in 1954, Young Adam was made into a film starring Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton, and is now reissued with an introduction by PEN finalist and literary critic David L. Ulin. This is a psychologically suspenseful novel and an absorbing portrait of a haunted man, from an iconoclastic Beat writer praised by the New Yorker for "e;prose that is always clean and sharp and often ferociously alive with poetry"e; and called "e;the most brilliant man I ever met"e; by Allen Ginsberg. "e;Trocchi may be the greatest unknown writer in the world."e; The Bloomsbury Review