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Andrew Murray Scott
This new edition of the critically-acclaimed biography of Alexander Trocchi has been revised, extended and updated since its first publication in 1991 when it helped to create new interest in…
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Alexander Trocchi
Written 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…
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Published for the first time in 1972, this verse collection reveals lesser-known facets of the novelist Alexander Trocchi’s writing.
The cult erotic classic - a subversive and deeply suggestive masterpiece.
The 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. Tensions increase in cramped confines…
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Written when the author of Cain’s Book was at the height of his creative powers and enjoying an increasing reputation in avant-garde literary circles, “The Holy Man’ is here presented…
