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PUBLISHER: Alma Books Ltd
FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN: 9781847491008
RRP: £10.99
PAGES: 90
PUBLICATION DATE:
March 31, 2009
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Man at Leisure
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, rich and frankly obscene, and his arguments are both witty and profound.
Alexander Trocchi
Alexander Trocchi (1925-84) was a controversial Scottish novelist of the beat generation. A heroin addict, he is best known for Cain’s Book, an autobiographical account of his sexual misadventures and drug abuse whilst living in New York.