Shuggie Bain

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ISBN 9781529064414|Paperback|448 pages|2020|Picador

Shuggie Bain is a heart-wrenching novel which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.

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ISBN 9781529064414|Paperback|448 pages|2020|Picador

Shuggie Bain is a heart-wrenching novel which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.

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A heart-wrenchingly moving first novel set in Glasgow during the Thatcher years, Shuggie Bain tells the story of a boy’s doomed attempt to save his proud, alcoholic mother from her addiction. Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 ‘An amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love’ The judges of the Booker Prize An Observer ‘Best Debut Novelist of 2020′ It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift 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.

Author:

Douglas Stuart

ISBN:

9781529064414

Publisher:

Picador

Binding:

Paperback

Pages:

448

Year of Publication:

2020

Edition:

First

Condition:

New

Country of Origin:

India

About the Editor

The author was born and raised in Glasgow. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in London, he moved to New York City, where he began a career in fashion design. Shuggie Bain is his first novel.

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