Young Adam

A compelling existential thriller by the Beat-era writer: "Everyone should read Young Adam" (The Times Literary Supplement).

Young Adam tells the story of Joe, a drifter who works on a barge traveling the Clyde River between Glasgow and Edinburgh. As the novel opens, Joe finds the corpse of a young woman floating in the water. Was it an accident, a suicide, or murder?

As the police investigate and arrest a suspect, it becomes clear that Joe knows far more than he's telling. Originally...