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Portrait Of A Young Man Drowning

by Charles Perry
Portrait Of A Young Man Drowning

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ISBN13: 9780393314625
ISBN10: 0393314626
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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.

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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.

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This riveting tale of compulsion and murder bears comparison in its inexorability to Jim Thompson's .

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ISBN:
9780393314625
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
07/17/1996
Publisher:
W W NORTON & CO
Series info:
Old School Books Series
Pages:
336
Height:
.99IN
Width:
5.53IN
Thickness:
1 in.
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1996
Series Volume:
0000
UPC Code:
2800393314627
Author:
Charles Perry
Subject:
Violence -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Subject:
Brooklyn
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Subject:
Young men
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
New york (state)
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Subject:
Violence
Subject:
Mothers and sons

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