Shuggie Bain - Winner Booker Prize 2020

Zusatztext Compulsively readable… As [the novel] beautifully and shockingly illustrates how Shuggie ends up alone, this novel offers a testament to the indomitable human spirit. Very highly recommended Informationen zum Autor Douglas Stuart was born and raised in Glasgow. After graduating from the Royal College of Art, he moved to New York, where he began a career in fashion design. Shuggie Bain , his first novel, won the Booker Prize and both 'Debut of the Year' and 'Book of The Year' at the British Book Awards. It was also shortlisted for the US National Book Award for Fiction, among many other awards. His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker and his essay on gender, anxiety and class was published by Lit Hub. He divides his time between New York and Glasgow. Young Mungo is his second novel. Klappentext A heart-wrenchingly moving first novel set in Glasgow during the Thatcher years, Shuggie Bain tells the story of a boy's doomed attempt to save his proud, alcoholic mother from her addiction. Vorwort A heart-wrenchingly moving first novel set in Glasgow during the Thatcher years, Shuggie Bain tells the story of a boy's doomed attempt to save his proud, alcoholic mother from her addiction. Zusammenfassung A heart-wrenchingly moving first novel set in Glasgow during the Thatcher years, Shuggie Bain tells the story of a boy's doomed attempt to save his proud, alcoholic mother from her addiction.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Stuart
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781529019292
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-1929-2
• No. of pages: 430
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Glasgow, Coming of age, Urban, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Modern and contemporary fiction, ‘Street’ fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Central Scotland, Of specific Gay interest, Coping with drug and alcohol problems, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Relating to gay people, Family Life / General, LGBT / Gay