Young Adam - Trocchi, Alexander
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Set on a canal linking Glasgow and Edinburgh, Young Adam is the masterly literary debut by one of the most important British post-war novelists. Trocchis narrator is an outsider, a drifter working for the skipper of a barge. Together they discover a young womans corpse floating in the canal, and tensions increase further in cramped confines with the narrators highly charged seduction of the skippers wife. Conventional morality and the objective meaning of events are stripped away in a work that proves compulsively readable.

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Produktbeschreibung
Set on a canal linking Glasgow and Edinburgh, Young Adam is the masterly literary debut by one of the most important British post-war novelists. Trocchis narrator is an outsider, a drifter working for the skipper of a barge. Together they discover a young womans corpse floating in the canal, and tensions increase further in cramped confines with the narrators highly charged seduction of the skippers wife. Conventional morality and the objective meaning of events are stripped away in a work that proves compulsively readable.
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Autorenporträt
Alexander Trocchi was born on the 30th July 1925 in Glasgow to a Scottish mother and Italian father. On graduating from the University of Glasgow in the early 1950s, he obtained a travelling grant that allowed him to relocate to continental Europe. He first lived in Paris and edited the literary magazine Merlin, which published Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Christopher Logue, and Pablo Neruda. It was in Paris that he acquired a lifelong heroin addiction, which continued after moving to America and settling in New York. In the 1960s Trocchi lived in Kensington, London where he later died of pneumonia in 1984.