Shuggie Bain : Winner of the Booker Prize 2020
by Douglas Stuart (Author)
Format:Paperback / softback 448 pages
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Picador
ISBN:9781529019292
Published:15 Apr 2021
Classifications:Central Scotland, c 1980 to c 1990, Of specific Gay interest, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Readership:General (US: Trade)
Weight:322g
Dimensions:131 x 196 x 30 (mm)
Pub. Country:United Kingdom
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Winner of the Booker Prize 2020Winner of Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2021Winner of Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards 2021Shortlisted for the US National Book Award for Fiction 2020 A BBC Two Between the Covers 2021 Book Choice We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love. The judges of the Booker Prize 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.
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 mothers 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 Stuarts 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 Hollinghursts The Line of Beauty, it also recalls the work of Edouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, a blistering debut by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.
2020 Booker Prize winner 2021 British Book Award "book of the year" winner 2021 British Book Award "debut of the year" winner 2020 US National Book Award Finalist BBC 2021 "book choice between covers" we were shocked by this novel, which created a surprisingly intimate, compassionate and exciting addiction A portrait of courage and love. Judge of the Booker Prize "Douglas Stewart wrote a rare and lasting beautiful novel." - observer, this is 1981. Glasgow is dying, and good families must endure humiliation to survive. Agnes Bain has always had more expectations of life.
She dreamed of something greater: a house with its own front door, and a life that she bought and paid for completely (like her perfect but fake teeth). But Agnes was abandoned by her talkative husband, and soon she and her three children found themselves trapped in a destroyed mining town. As she drank deeper and deeper, the children tried their best to save her, but another person abandoned her to save herself.
Her son Shuji is the one who holds the hope for the longest. Shuji is different. Picky and picky, he has the same snobbish sense of propriety as his mother.
The miners children bullied him, and the adults condemned him for having no rights. But Shuji believes that as long as he works hard, he can be as normal as other boys and help his mother escape from this desperate place. Shuggie Bain of Douglas Stuart reveals the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love and the emptiness of pride.
Corresponding to the Thatcher era London of Alan Hollinghursts the line of beauty, it also reminds people of the works of Edward Louis, Frank McCourt and Hanya Liuyuan. It is a wonderful debut of a talented writer and tells a powerful and important story.
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