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Like New: A book that has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust ...
Signed
Yes
Edition
First Edition
ISBN
9781529019278
Publication Year
2020
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Book Title
Shuggie Bain: Winner of the Booker Prize 2020
Item Height
241mm
Author
Douglas Stuart
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Topic
Books, Coping with Illness
Item Width
163mm
Item Weight
672g
Number of Pages
448 Pages

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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 'An amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love' The Booker Prize Judges 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 Edouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, it is a blistering debut by a brilliant novelist with a powerful and important story to tell. LONGLISTED FOR ABIA INTERNATIONAL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 PRAISE FOR SHUGGIE BAIN 'A debut novel that reads like a masterpiece, Shuggie Bain gives voice to the kind of helpless, hopeless love that children can feel toward broken parents.' Washington Post 'The way Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting carved a permanent place in our heads and hearts for the junkies of late-1980s Edinburgh, the language, imagery, and story of fashion designer Stuart's debut novel apotheosizes the life of the Bain family of Glasgow . . . The emotional truth embodied here will crack you open. You will never forget Shuggie Bain. Scene by scene, this book is a masterpiece.' Kirkus Review (starred review) 'It's a formidable story, lyrically told, about intimacy, family, and love.' Elle 'Magnificent . . . Its richly rendered events will give you a lot to talk about.' O, the Oprah Magazine 'A boy's heartbreaking love for his mother . . . as intense and excruciating to read as any novel I have ever held in my hand . . . The book's evocative power arises out of the author's talent for conjuring a place, a time, and the texture of emotion . . . brilliantly written.' Newsday 'Beautiful and bleak but with enough warmth and optimism to carry the reader through.' Graham Norton (via Twitter) 'Not only does [Stuart] clearly know his characters, he clearly loves them . . . Stuart describes their life with compassion and a keen ear for language . . . Such is Stuart's talent that this painful, sometimes excruciating story is often quite beautiful.' San Francisco Chronicle 'Every now and then a novel comes along that feels necessary and inevitable. I'll never forget Shuggie and Agnes or the incredibly detailed Glasgow they inhabit. This is the rare contemporary novel that reads like an instant classic. I'll be thinking and talking about Shuggie Bain-and teaching it-for quite some time.' Garrard Conley, author of Boy Erased

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Pan Macmillan
ISBN-13
9781529019278
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Book Title
Shuggie Bain: Winner of the Booker Prize 2020
Author
Douglas Stuart
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Books, Coping with Illness
Publication Year
2020
Number of Pages
448 Pages

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Item Height
241mm
Item Width
163mm
Item Weight
672g

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Douglas Stuart
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United Kingdom

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    interesting

    I am 76 years of age and it was extremely harrowing to learn of such problems a child had to endure when its childhood should have been the best years of its life. One hears of such problems but if it doesn't effect your life its hard to understand the problems of others. Cant say it was an enjoyable read but it was compelling reading.

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  • The story of Shuggie

    What a book!, I am engrossed in this hard hitting compelling story. It is had to believe that this is the first story from the author.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: cmedia_group

  • great a straight to the point

    It was recommended by a friend for my sister in law and she loved it

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: jadeparkin19

  • You read it and you cant put it down.

    Its a christmas present for my father who was born there at the time .it will bring back memories for him.

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  • Perfick

    I am Scottish and brought back great memories a very good read indeed

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