Young Adam

Young Adam
Heinemann, 1961 First UK edition cover
AuthorAlexander Trocchi
LanguageEnglish UK
Published1954 (Olympia Press) (1st edition)
1961 (Heinemann) (2nd English edition)
Publication placeFrance
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]

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

  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.