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Shuggie Bain : a novel Cover Image Book Book

Shuggie Bain : a novel

Stuart, Douglas 1976- (author.).

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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  • ISBN: 0802148506 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 9780802148506 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: 430 pages : 21 cm
    regular print
    print
  • Edition: First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2020
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Subject: Boys -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- 20th century -- Fiction
Gay youth -- Scotland -- 20th century -- Fiction
Landlord and tenant -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- 20th century -- Fiction
Mothers and sons -- Fiction
Public housing -- Scotland -- 20th century -- Fiction
Women alcoholics -- Fiction
Working class families -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- 20th century -- Fiction
Glasgow (Scotland) -- 20th century -- Fiction
Scotland -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genre: Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Headingley Municipal Library.

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