Name: Shuggie Bain
Price: 1016.00 TWD
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Author: Douglas Stuart
ISBN: 9780802148049

Type

Physical Book

Author

Douglas Stuart

Publisher

Grove Press

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

448

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.4 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm

Weight

0.59 kg.

ISBN13

9780802148049

Synopsis "Shuggie Bain "

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZENEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA stunning debut novel by a masterful writer telling the heartwrenching story of a young boy and his alcoholic mother, whose love is only matched by her pride.Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings.Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's 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 taxi-driver husband, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good--her beehive, make-up, and pearly-white 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 lion's share of each week's benefits--all the family has to live on--on cans of extra-strong lager hidden in handbags and poured into tea mugs. Agnes's 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 her--even her beloved Shuggie.A heartbreaking story of addiction, sexuality, and love, Shuggie Bain is an epic portrayal of a working-class family that is rarely seen in fiction. Recalling the work of Édouard 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.

Douglas Stuart

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Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American writer born in Glasgow in 1976. After studying at the Scottish College of Textiles and earning a master's degree from the Royal College of Art in London, he moved to New York at the age of 24, where he developed a successful career in fashion design. Later, he ventured into literature, publishing his first novel, "Shuggie Bain", in 2020.

"Shuggie Bain" is a novel that portrays life in Glasgow during the 1980s and was awarded the Booker Prize in 2020, making Stuart the second Scot to receive this honor.

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