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Shuggie Bain

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Shuggie Bain

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SKU: 9781529019278 Category: Product ID: 289209

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Title: Shuggie Bain
Author: STUART DOUGLAS
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 13/10/2020
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $40.00
Publishing status: Active

An Observer 'Best Debut Novelist of 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 <i>no’ right</i>. 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 <i>Shuggie Bain</i> 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 <i>The Line of Beauty</i>, it also recalls the work of Édouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, a blistering debut by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.

ISBN: 9781529019278
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm
Pages: 448

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Weight 300 g
Dimensions 234 × 153 mm