Alexander Trocchi was born in Glasgow on 30 July, 1925. At various points in his life he was a straight-A student, a pig farmer, a family man, a pimp, a heroin addict, a pornographer, a dealer in antique books, a forger, a polemicist, a revolutionary, a literary editor, a „cosmonaut of inner space“, and not least a novelist and writer. The best of his novels include Helen and Desire, Young Adam, and the semi-autobiographical junk classic, Cain“s Book. He died in 1984 at the age of 59.
9 Ebooks von Alexander Trocchi
Alexander Trocchi: Helène oder die Begierde
‚Es ist dunkel in dem Zelt, in dem ich liege, auf ein paar Schaffellen, die sie für mich bereitgelegt haben. Sie haben mir meine Kleider weggenommen und mir die einer Araberin gegeben. Ich kann sie …
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€4.99
Alexander Trocchi: Man at Leisure
Published for the first time in 1972, this verse collection reveals lesser-known facets of the novelist Alexander Trocchi’s writing. The poems included span a long period of time, and range from the …
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€7.46
Alexander Trocchi: Young Adam
Set on a canal linking Glasgow and Edinburgh, Young Adam is the masterly literary debut by one of the most important British post-war novelists.Trocchi’s narrator is an outsider, a drifter working …
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€7.51
Alexander Trocchi: Holy Man and Other Stories
Above a disused bar, in a dilapidated Parisian hotel that houses an assortment of indigent, marginalized lost souls, one of the inhabitants, a mysterious, reclusive holy man, is the subject of much …
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€7.48
Alexander Trocchi: Cain’s Book
A Beat-era novel of heroin addiction in 1950s New York City that was called “a treasure” by Ken Kesey. This is the journal of Joe Necchi, a junkie living on a barge that plies the …
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€3.75
Alexander Trocchi: 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 …
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€3.73
Alexander Trocchi: Helen And Desire
Helen and Desire, the best known and finest of Trocchi’s erotic novels, is a highly compelling examination of sexuality. Written from the perspective of its eponymous heroine, Helen Smith, it follows …
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€9.95
Alexander Trocchi: Young Adam
Set on a canal linking Glasgow and Edinburgh, Young Adam is the masterly literary debut by one of the most important British post-war novelists. Trocchi’s narrator is an outsider, a drifter working …
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€11.22
Alexander Trocchi: Cain’s Book
Written in America while Trocchi was working on a scow on the Hudson River, Cain’s Book is an extraordinary autobiographical account about a junky’s life, and an honest, raunchy, eye-opening trip …
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€9.96
