<div>A compelling existential thriller by the Beat-era writer: &ldquo;Everyone should read Young Adam&rdquo; (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&rsquo;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 &ldquo;prose that is always clean and sharp and often ferociously alive with poetry&rdquo; and called &ldquo;the most brilliant man I ever met&rdquo; by Allen Ginsberg. &ldquo;Trocchi may be the greatest unknown writer in the world.&rdquo; &mdash;The Bloomsbury Review</div>

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<div>A Beat-era novel of heroin addiction in 1950s New York City that was called &ldquo;a treasure&rdquo; by Ken Kesey. This is the journal of Joe Necchi, a junkie living on a barge that plies the rivers and bays of New York. Joe&rsquo;s world is the half-world of drugs and addicts&mdash;the world of furtive fixes in sordid Harlem apartments, of police pursuits down deserted subway stations. Junk for Necchi, however, is a tool, freely chosen and fully justified; he is Cain, the malcontent, the profligate, the rebel who lives by no one&rsquo;s rules but his own. Author Alexander Trocchi&rsquo;s muse was drugs&mdash;but in this novel, he does not romanticize the source of his inspiration. If the experience of heroin, of the &ldquo;fix,&rdquo; is central to Cain&rsquo;s Book, both its destructive force and the possibilities it holds for creativity are recognized and accepted without apology. &ldquo;The classic of the late-1950s account of heroin addiction . . . An un-self-forgiving existentialism, rendered with writerly exactness and muscularity, set this novel apart from all others of the genre.&rdquo; &mdash;William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch</div>

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Young Adam

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