Shuggie Bain A Novel Booker Prize Winner by Douglas Stuart
Brand: Black Cat
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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh Shuggie Bain a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in rundown public housing in Glasgow Scotland. Thatchers policies have put husbands and sons out of work and the citys notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggies mother Agnes walks a wayward path she is Shuggies guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. She dreams of a house with its own front door while she flicks through the pages of the Freemans catalogue ordering a little happiness on credit anything to brighten up her grey life. Married to a philandering taxidriver husband Agnes keeps her pride by looking goodher beehive makeup and pearlywhite false teeth offer a glamorous image of a Glaswegian Elizabeth Taylor. But under the surface Agnes finds increasing solace in drink and she drains away the lions share of each weeks benefitsall the family has to live onon cans of extrastrong lager hidden in handbags and poured into tea mugs. Agness older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother abandoning Shuggie to care for her as she swings between alcoholic binges and sobriety. Shuggie is meanwhile struggling to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be but everyone has realized that he is no right a boy with a secret that all but him can see. Agnes is supportive of her son but her addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to hereven her beloved Shuggie. A heartbreaking story of addiction sexuality and love Shuggie Bain is an epic portrayal of a workingclass family that is rarely seen in fiction. Recalling the work of douard Louis Alan Hollinghurst Frank McCourt and Hanya Yanagihara it is a blistering debut by a brilliant novelist who has a powerful and important story to tell. show more
Condition : New
Author : Douglas Stuart
Weight : 550.91
Publisher : Black Cat
Language : English
EAN : 9780802148506
ISBN10 : 0802148506
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20201231
Place of Publication : New York United States
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 139.7 X 208.28 X 30.99mm