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Shuggie Bain (Winner of the Booker Prize 2020) by Douglas Stuart, Douglas Stuart is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Douglas Stuart’s blistering and heartbreaking debut is an exploration of the unsinkable love that only children can have for their damaged parents. Set in working-class Glasgow in the febrile 1980s, the character of Shuggie Bain reflects something of the author’s own difficult childhood."Shuggie Bain is destined to be a classic — a moving, immersive and nuanced portrait of a tight-knit social world, its people and its values." - Margaret Busby, chair of the Booker Prize Judges 20201981, Glasgow. The city is dying. Poverty is on the rise. When her philandering husband walks out, leaving her with three children, Agnes turns to alcohol for comfort. The children try their best to save her. Yet one by one they have to abandon her in order to save themselves. Shuggie still holds out hope. But Shuggie has problems of his own, despite all his efforts to pass as ‘normal’. Agnes wants to protect her son, but her addiction has the power to eclipse everything. And everyone."Readers may get through the whole novel without breaking down - then read the first sentence of the acknowledgements and lose it. The emotional truth embodied here will crack you open. You will never forget Shuggie Bain.

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Author

Douglas Stuart, Douglas Stuart

Publisher

Picador USA

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781529019292

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction

Rating

4.4 / 5 (45,251 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14