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Shuggie Bain : a novel / by Douglas Stuart

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First Grove Atlantic paperback editionContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780802148506
  • 0802148506
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS3619 .T828 S58 2020
Contents:
1992, The south side -- 1981, Sighthill -- 1982, Pithead -- 1989, The east end -- 1992, The south side
Summary: The story of Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland, taking care of his beloved mother Agnes. Agnes is a proud, beautiful woman who turns herself out like her idol Elizabeth Taylor, but she is an alcoholic, and spends most of the family's weekly benefits money on alcohol. Shuggie is meanwhile doing all he can to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realized that Shuggie is "no right," and now Agnes's addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her, especially her beloved Shuggie
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1992, The south side -- 1981, Sighthill -- 1982, Pithead -- 1989, The east end -- 1992, The south side

The story of Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland, taking care of his beloved mother Agnes. Agnes is a proud, beautiful woman who turns herself out like her idol Elizabeth Taylor, but she is an alcoholic, and spends most of the family's weekly benefits money on alcohol. Shuggie is meanwhile doing all he can to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realized that Shuggie is "no right," and now Agnes's addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her, especially her beloved Shuggie

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