Young Adam

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Young Adam
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Heinemann, 1961 First UK edition cover
AuthorAlexander Trocchi
CountryFrance
LanguageEnglish UK
Published1954 (Olympia Press) (1st edition)
1961 (Heinemann) (2nd English edition)
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages168 pp (Rebel paperback edition 1999)
ISBN978-0-86241-905-9 (Rebel paperback edition 1999)
OCLC43418858
823/.914 21
LC ClassPR6070.R56 Y6 1999

Young Adam is a 1954 novel by Alexander Trocchi which tells the story of Joe, a young man who labours on the river barges of Glasgow, and who discovers the 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, Les and his younger wife, Ella – and it becomes clearer as the novel progresses that Joe is connected to the dead woman he found.[1] From this comes the saying, "I've shed my own skin and merged into the fog".

This story was adapted into film as Young Adam in 2003 starring Ewan MacGregor, Tilda Swinton and Peter Mullan.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Gritten, David (2002-08-05). "Return of the outsider". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-02-02.
  2. ^ "Young Adam". The Independent. 2003-09-28. Retrieved 2018-02-02.

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