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Shuggie Bain

byDouglas Stuart

Genres: LGBTQ+Fiction Historical fiction Coming Out Stories

Who is this book for? Readers interested in poignant family dramas and stories of resilience in the face of adversity.

Topics Family dynamicsAddictionPovertyIdentityMother-son relationshipWorking class strugglesLgbtq themesAlcoholismChildhood traumaSocial issuesLoveSurvivalFamily

MoodMelancholic, Hopeful

RomanceMinor Subplot

Explicit scenesSuggestive Themes

Winner of the Booker Prize 2020 Winner of the British Book Awards Overall Book of the Year & Debut Book of the Year 2021 Shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2021 Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2021 Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2021 Winner of Scottish Waterstones Book of the Year 2020 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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Published on

01/01/2021

Pages

480

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Paperback

ISBN

9781529019292

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