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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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1529019281
ISBN 13
9781529019285
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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 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 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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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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