Trocchi: 10 books

Frances Lengel's (Alexander Trocchi's) School for Sin gives a stirring, detailed account of what Peggy and Doreen learned in the big city after they left their respective potato farms. Another of Trocchi's books, this one is intriguing if only for the way Doreen came to join her friend...

Everyone should read Young Adam.--Times Literary Supplement From an external source: Alexander Trocchi's first novel is an existential thriller set on a barge travelling along the canalways between Glasgow and Edinburgh. The plot revolves around the discovery of the corpse of a young woman found floating...

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 lyricism of his early love poetry and reflections on his involvement in drug culture to the penetrating...

Thongs, by "Carmenicita de Las Lunas" (Trocchi), is among the author's most vibrant and respected works. The book gives us Gertrude Gault, the Grand Painmistress, and follows her career from the ghettos of Glasgow to her rebirth as Carmenicita de Las Lunas, greatest of all painmasters, before finally...

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...

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 rivers and bays of New York. Joe’s world is the half-world of drugs and addicts—the world of furtive fixes...

Trocchi's first novel, and considered by many his most succesful bit of erotica (though there were so many good ones by this author), is the tale of Helen, a girl born to a rural village in Northwest Australia (about as isolated a place as it gets), and a woman of the sea, like that other Helen...

The long-awaited sequel to Desire and Helen, this work picks up where the first volume left off, presenting us with private investigator Anthony Harvest, a detective with a penchant for the sexual life, and a gift for handling tough situations. Henry meets up with Helen's former companion, and in...

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"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 draußen sprechen hören, aber ich kann ihre Sprache nicht verstehen. Sie tränken ihre Kamele....