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Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 1529019281
- ISBN 13
- 9781529019285
- Seller
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Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Picador, Great Britain, 2020. Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition. 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 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 Hollinghursts The Line of Beauty, it also recalls the work of Édouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, it is a blistering debut by a brilliant novelist with a powerful and important story to tell. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; ISBN/EAN: 9781529019285. Inventory No: 266507.. 9781529019285
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On Apr 14 2022, a reader said:
Readable but boring
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Details
- Bookseller
- leura books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 266507
- Title
- Shuggie Bain
- Author
- Douglas Stuart
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1529019281
- ISBN 13
- 9781529019285
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain
- Date Published
- 2020
- Keywords
- BZDB43 Fiction; Unbranded EAN: 9781529019285 Douglas Stuart Shuggie Bain
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- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...