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Shuggie Bain: Winner of the Booker Prize 2020 by Douglas Stuart (Paperback, 2021)

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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2020 LONGLISTED FOR ABIA INTERNATIONAL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 '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 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, a blistering debut by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.

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PublisherPan Macmillan

ISBN-139781529019292

eBay Product ID (ePID)12046679573

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Publication Year2021

TopicBooks, Coping with Illness

Book TitleShuggie Bain: Winner of the Booker Prize 2020

Number of Pages448 Pages

LanguageEnglish

AuthorDouglas Stuart

FormatPaperback

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Item Height197 mm

Item Weight325 g

Item Width130 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

Title_AuthorDouglas Stuart

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by trisha5patricia
16 Jun, 2021
Brilliantly written
Excellent book. Difficult to say one ‘enjoys’ a book with such a bleak theme but it is brilliantly written an with such observation and detail. Do read it .
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by issy71
23 Mar, 2022
Shuggie Bain
This story had to be told and I couldn’t put it down. Harrowing and so much truth and totally relatable to someone born around the time of this story. A miners village not unlike the one I grew up in, I felt I knew this family and their neighbours. Congratulations to the honesty of the writer.
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by leslem_ukbryporh
27 Nov, 2022
Red high gloss paint
Bought this for kitchen woodwork and breakfast bar. Excellent high gloss finnish and probably one of the best brush on gloss i have used, leaves a lovely glossy finish. Highly recomended.
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by benmcdo-62
31 Jul, 2021
title good, writing good, content utterly depressing with no let up
most depressing book
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by denisey_5
27 Jul, 2022
Brilliant but difficult read at times
Very Errol written but hard hitting story around poverty and hardship. You really want the best for Shuggie. The characters are very real.
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by lynheggi0
14 Jun, 2021
good Scottish read
if you like Scottish stories you'll love this book
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by joxxy10
04 Oct, 2023
A great read
Brilliant book, heart warming, witty, sad, funny, a compelling story - now going to buy his other book.
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by bill155shed-6
11 Jun, 2023
Great read
Great story - a book not easy to put down
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by browneyes1311
06 Sep, 2024
A very thoughtful reflecting read. Can b...
A very thoughtful reflecting read. Can be hard at times,but a beautifully written thought provoking book.
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by dasa-8497
10 Dec, 2022
Good
I though the book was very true to life in the 60's the down side for me was the Scottish language and poor use of sware words
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