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Young Adam is a 1957 novel by Alexander Trocchi about a young man working on the river barges of Glasgow. It tells the story of Joe, a young man working on the canals between Glasgow and Edinburgh who discovers a body of a young woman floating in the canal. The novel focuses on the relationship between Joe and his companions on the barge - a husband and wife - and it becomes clearer as the novel progresses that Joe is connected to the corpse.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Young Adam.
- Author
- TROCCHI, Alexander
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- The New English Library, London.
- Date Published
- 1966
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