Young Adam

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name = Young Adam
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image_caption = Heinemann, 1961 First UK Edition cover
author = Alexander Trocchi
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country = France
language = English
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publisher = Olympia Press (1st edition)
pub_date = 1954
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media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
pages = 168 pp (Rebel paperback edition 1999)
isbn = ISBN 978-0862419059 (Rebel paperback edition 1999)

ISBN 978-1-84749-042-1 (Oneworld Classics Edition 2008)
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"Young Adam" is a 1957 novel by Alexander Trocchi about a young man working on the river barges of Glasgow. It tells the story of Joe, a young man working on the canals between Glasgow and Edinburgh who discovers a 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 and wife - and it becomes clearer as the novel progresses that Joe is connected to the corpse.

It was adapted to film as "Young Adam" in 2003.