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Shuggie Bain : a novel / Douglas Stuart.

Shuggie Bain : a novel / Douglas Stuart.
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Record Number 20819
ISBN 9780802148506 (pbk.)
Item Number 60002392970
Location F STU
Author Stuart, Douglas, (author).
Title Shuggie Bain : a novel / Douglas Stuart.
Published New York : Grove Press, 2020.
©2020.
Collation 448 pages ; 24 cm.
Content types text
Carrier type volume
General Note Collection: LGBTIQA+ Adult
Summary Note Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, is a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. Married to a philandering taxi-driver husband, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good-but under the surface, Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away all the family has to live on--on cans of extra-strong lager hidden in handbags and poured into tea mugs. Agnes's older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to care for her as she swings between alcoholic binges and sobriety. Shuggie is meanwhile struggling to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realized that he is "no right," a boy with a secret that all but him can see. Agnes is supportive of her son, but her addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her--even her beloved Shuggie.
Awards Note Winner of The 2020 Booker Prize.
Subject Mothers and sons -- Fiction
Single mothers -- Fiction
Alcoholism - Fiction
Poverty -- Fiction
Children of alcoholics -- Fiction
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
Geographic Name Glasgow (Scotland) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
Glasgow (Scotland) -- Fiction
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