| Young Adam | |
| Author: | Alexander Trocchi |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | English UK |
| Published: | 1954 (Olympia Press) (1st edition) 1961 (Heinemann) (2nd English edition) |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages: | 168 pp (Rebel paperback edition 1999) |
| Isbn: | 978-0-86241-905-9 |
| Isbn Note: | (Rebel paperback edition 1999) |
| Dewey: | 823/.914 21 |
| Congress: | PR6070.R56 Y6 1999 |
| Oclc: | 43418858 |
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]