- Antiheroes in fiction, Drifters, Antiheroes, Drifters in fiction
Joe is a drifter who works as a hired hand on a barge traveling the Clyde River between Glasgow and Edinburgh. As Young Adam opens, Joe finds the corpse of a young woman floating in the water.
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Grave, earnest, intimate and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Alexander Trocchi
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 153
- Publisher
- Rebel Inc, Greenleaf Classics, Grove Press
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780862419059
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