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Douglas Stuart - Shuggie Bain (2nd Hand Hardback)
ISBN / GTIN-13 : 9781529019278
Synopsis
Winner of the Booker Prize 2020.
Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction 2020.
The Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2020.
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must graft to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life.
She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town.
As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves.
It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. Shuggie is different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother’s sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no’ right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place.
Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride.
A counterpart to the privileged Thatcher-era London of Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty, it also recalls the work of Édouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, a blistering debut by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Hardback with Dust Jacket
- Condition : Very Good (Almost As New)
- Category : Fiction - Scottish Fiction
- Published : 2020 (Picador - 1st Edition, 8th Printing)
- ISBN : 9781529019278
- SKU : B002262
- PPC : SP700gm
- RRP : £14.99 (Unclipped)
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
'We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' - The Judges of the Booker Prize Review.
'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' - The Observer.
"A heartbreaking novel, a book both beautiful and brutal . . . All that grief and sadness and misery has been turned into something tough, tender and beautifully sad." - The Times.
"Leaves us gutted and marvelling: Life may be short, but it takes forever." - New York Times.
"Rarely does a debut novel establish its world with such sure-footedness, and Stuart’s prose is lithe, lyrical and full of revelatory descriptive insights." - Alex Preston, Observer.
"An astonishing portrait, drawn from life, of a society left to die . . ." - Daily Telegraph.
"Shuggie Bain comes from a deep understanding of the relationship between a child and a substance-abusing parent, showing a world rarely portrayed in literary fiction . . . admirable and important." - Sarah Moss, The Guardian.
The Author
Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American writer and fashion designer. His debut novel, Shuggie Bain, was awarded the 2020 Booker Prize.Delivery & Postage
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