Young Adam

Description:

Joe is a drifter who works as a hired hand on a barge traveling the Clyde River between Glasgow and Edinburgh. As Young Adam opens, Joe finds the corpse of a young woman floating in the water. Was it an accident, a suicide, or was she murdered? As the police investigate and arrest a suspect, Trocchi's haunting novel reveals that Joe knows far more than he's telling. Meanwhile, confined in the claustrophobic space of the barge, an unspoken attraction develops between Joe and the wife of the barge skipper.

subjects: Antiheroes in fiction,  Drifters,  Antiheroes,  Drifters in fiction,  Barges,  Scotland in fiction,  Fiction,  Murder in fiction,  Barges in fiction,  Alienation (Social psychology),  Murder,  Fiction, psychological,  Scotland, fiction

Places: Scotland,  Clyde River Valley (Scotland)