Alexander Trocchi

Cain's Book

Scottish heroin addict's stream-of-consciousness meditation on existence and addiction

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Alexander Trocchi
Alexander Trocchi

Scottish-Italian author who was associated with the French literary underground in the 1950s. Cain's Book is his semi-autobiographical novel about heroin addiction, and Young Adam is a dark Scottish existentialist thriller.

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