Young Adam

Alexander Trocchi

earliest edition we have, 1983 Rebel Inc., 1999 146 pages

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...

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Editions we hold

Young Adam edition · 2008 · Oneworld Classics · 153 pages · 9781847490421
Young Adam edition · 2003 · Grove Press · 146 pages
Young Adam edition · 1999 · Rebel Inc. · 146 pages
Young Adam edition · 1996 · Rebel Inc · 152 pages
Young Adam paperback · 1991 · Sunset Books · 208 pages · 9781878320636
Young Adam paperback · 1983 · Riverrun Pr · 9780714539317

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