Young Adam

1954 novel by Alexander Trocchi

978-0-86241-905-9 (Rebel paperback edition 1999)OCLC43418858
Dewey Decimal
823/.914 21LC 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]

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

References

  1. ^ Gritten, David (5 August 2002). "Return of the outsider". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  2. ^ "Young Adam". The Independent. 28 September 2003. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2018.

External links

  • 2002 article in The Telegraph about the novel


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