Shuggie Bain (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
448
Utgivningsdatum
2020-02-20
Förlag
Pan MacMillan
Dimensioner
198 x 156 x 32 mm
Vikt
550 g
ISBN
9781529019285

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Shuggie Bain (häftad)

Shuggie Bain

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av Douglas Stuart
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1981. Glasgow. The city is dying. Poverty is on the rise. People watch the lives they had hoped for disappear from view.

Agnes Bain had always expected more. She dreamed of greater things: a house with its own front door, a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect - but false - teeth). When her philandering husband ups and leaves, she and her three children find themselves trapped in a mining town decimated by Thatcher-era politics. As Agnes increasingly turns to alcohol for comfort, her children try their best to save her. Yet one by one they abandon her in order to save themselves.

It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. But Shuggie has problems of his own: despite all his efforts to pass as a normal boy, everyone has started to realize that Shuggie is 'no right'. Agnes wants to be there for her son, but her addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her - even her beloved Shuggie.

Laying bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride, Shuggie Bain is a blistering debut by a brilliant novelist with a powerful and important story to tell.

'An intimate and frighteningly acute exploration of a mother-son relationship and a masterful portrait of alcoholism in Scottish working-class life . . . I kept being reminded of Joyce's Dubliners.' Sandra Newman, author of The Heavens

'A dark shining work. Raw, formidable, bursting with tenderness and frailty. The effect is remarkable, it will make you cry.' Karl Geary, author of Montpelier Parade
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