{"title":"Books by Alexander Trocchi","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780714548470","title":"The Holy Man and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOnly edition in print\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbove 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 speculation from some of his fellow occupants and respectful reverence from others. As the tale unfolds, the dynamics of this precarious microcosm are laid bare, in a powerful portrayal of those society has forgotten.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten when the author of \u003ci\u003eCain’s Book\u003c\/i\u003e was at the height of his creative powers and enjoying an increasing reputation in avant-garde literary circles, ‘The Holy Man’ is here presented with ‘A Being of Distances’, ‘Peter Pierce’ and ‘A Meeting’, stories which similarly tackle themes of loneliness and disenfranchisement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294523535733,"sku":"9780714548470","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780714548470_7aeb3891-5f08-4c96-8abc-cd624fb02145.jpg?v=1786015298"},{"product_id":"9780714544601","title":"Cain's Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOnly edition in print\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten 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 through hell. Probably the most famous novel about drug addiction and the hazards and excitements of an addict’s life after Burrough’s Naked Lunch, this modern classic – which was prosecuted in Britain for obscenity in 1965 – still shocks in its frankness and is relevant to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296200143221,"sku":"9780714544601","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780714544601_58b9baa8-ca60-465f-b880-ab8e859a7f1a.jpg?v=1786015295"},{"product_id":"9780714544625","title":"Young Adam","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOnly edition in print\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet 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 for the skipper of a barge. Together they discover a young woman’s corpse floating in the canal, and tensions increase further in cramped confines with the narrator’s highly charged seduction of the skipper’s wife. Conventional morality and the objective meaning of events are stripped away in a work that proves compulsively readable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296667677045,"sku":"9780714544625","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780714544625_03fae300-d745-45e5-acfd-8ca85f1e6af3.jpg?v=1786015296"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-alexander-trocchi.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}