Synopses & Reviews
Charles Perry's only novel, first published in 1962, is set on the streets of Brooklyn; its cast of characters includes gangsters, juvenile delinquents, killers, and sexual compulsives. Meant to be a homage to Joyce's
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, it is one of the few novels of its time to be written by a black author about whites.
Portrait of a Young Man Drowning is a riveting tale of compulsion and murder. Caught in a whirlpool of street crime and Oedipal passion, the narrator Harold Odom is driven by circumstances into acts of self-destruction and twisted sexuality. His tale is comparable in its inexorability to Jim Thompson's classic The Killer Inside Me.
Synopsis
Set in the world of Brooklyn gangsters and juvenile delinquents, reveals a character caught in a whirlpool of street crime and Oedipal passion, driven by circumstances beyond his control into acts of self-destruction and twisted sexuality.
Synopsis
This riveting tale of compulsion and murder bears comparison in its inexorability to Jim Thompson's .