Shuggie Bain
Shuggie Bain
• The book is The Winner of the Booker Prize
A heartbreaking novel - The Times
A heartbreaking novel - The Times
An amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love. - The judges of the Booker Prize
Tender and unsentimental... The Billy Elliot-ish character of Shuggie... leaps off the page. - Daily Mail
Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty. - Observer
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life, dreaming of greater things. But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and 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, he is clearly 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.
Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. For readers of Hanya Yanagihara, Emma Donoghue, Alan Hollinghurst and Frank McCourt, it is a heartbreaking novel by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.
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• The book is The Winner of the Booker Prize
A heartbreaking novel - The Times
A heartbreaking novel - The Times
An amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love. - The judges of the Booker Prize
Tender and unsentimental... The Billy Elliot-ish character of Shuggie... leaps off the page. - Daily Mail
Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty. - Observer
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life, dreaming of greater things. But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and 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, he is clearly 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.
Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. For readers of Hanya Yanagihara, Emma Donoghue, Alan Hollinghurst and Frank McCourt, it is a heartbreaking novel by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.
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