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Shuggie Bain

Verfasser: Suche nach diesem Verfasser Stuart, Douglas (Verfasser)
Verfasserangabe: Douglas Stuart
Jahr: 2021
Verlag: London, Picador
Mediengruppe: Bücher
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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, a blistering debut by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.
 
'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' - Observer
 
'We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' The judges of the Booker Prize
 
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Verfasser: Suche nach diesem Verfasser Stuart, Douglas (Verfasser)
Verfasserangabe: Douglas Stuart
Jahr: 2021
Verlag: London, Picador
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Systematik: Suche nach dieser Systematik Sprachen 9
Interessenkreis: Suche nach diesem Interessenskreis englische Literatur
ISBN: 9781529019292
Beschreibung: 430 Seiten
Schlagwörter: Roman, Englisch
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Sprache: Englisch
Mediengruppe: Bücher