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This riveting tale of compulsion and murder bears comparison in its inexorability to Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me.
Set in the world of Brooklyn gangsters and juvenile delinquents, Portrait of a Young Man Drowning 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" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Charles Perry's only novel is a riveting tale of compulsion and murder, set in the world of Brooklyn gangsters and juvenile delinquents. 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.
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Charles Perry was a successful radio actor and playwright. He died of cancer in 1969.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0393314626
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