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“alexander trocchi”

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  • The Carnal Days Of Helen Seferis

    by Trocchi,Alexander ...
    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 time is sent into North Africa searching for the lost woman, whose diaries so inflamed the ... Read more

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  • Young Adam

    by Trocchi,Alexander ...
    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 in the canal. As tensions develop between the narrator of the story and the couple with whom ... Read more

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  • Desire And Helen

    by Trocchi,Alexander ...
    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 (both are Greek). Determined to flout convention and chronicle her life--all of life--Helen brings us ... Read more

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  • Thongs

    by Trocchi,Alexander ...
    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 ending in a conclusion, staggering in its originality, imagination, and explicitness. Additional ... Read more

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  • The School For Sin

    by Trocchi,Alexander ...
    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 in Dublin. They school's curriculumn itself is of course what one should expect, however as with all things ... Read more

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  • Young Adam

    A Novel

    by Alexander Trocchi ...
    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 of a young woman floating in the water. Was it an accident, a suicide, or murder?As the police investigate and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cain's Book

    by Alexander Trocchi ...
    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 in sordid Harlem apartments, of police pursuits down deserted subway stations. Junk for Necchi, however, is a tool ... Read more

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  • Helen And Desire

    by Alexander Trocchi ...
    How difficult it is to explain! The terribly mute hunger in our bodies! If I touch my thigh here in the near darkness of the tent my whole body is again instinct with the driving urge that brought me here, and I cannot explain it. As always, it is stronger than fear. For me it has always been that way . . .When the irrepressible Helen runs away from the small town she grew up in, she discovers a ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Carnal Days of Helen Seferis

    by Alexander Trocchi ...
    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 time is sent into North Africa searching for the lost woman, whose diaries so inflamed the imaginations ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Holy Man and Other Stories

    by Alexander Trocchi ...
    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 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 ... Read more

    $7.09 USD

  • Man at Leisure

    by Alexander Trocchi ...
    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 comments on contemporary figures and events of his later pieces. Trocchi’s language is strong, ... Read more

    $7.09 USD

  • The Bloody Countess

    Atrocities Of Erzsebet Bathory

    by Valentine Penrose ...
    Descended from one of the most ancient aristocratic families of Europe, Erzsebet Bathory bore the psychotic aberrations of centuries of intermarriage. From adolescence she indulged in sadistic lesbian fantasies, where only the spilling of a woman’s blood could satisfy her urges. By middle age, she had regressed to a mirror-fixated state of pathological necro-sadism involving witchcraft, torture ... Read more

    $8.69 USD