Shuggie Bain (häftad)
Format
Häftad (B-format paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Läsålder
Unga vuxna
Antal sidor
480
Utgivningsdatum
2021-04-15
Förlag
Pan Macmillan
Dimensioner
197 x 129 x 28 mm
Vikt
325 g
ISBN
9781529019292

Shuggie Bain

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Häftad,  Engelska, 2021-04-15
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Winner of the Booker Prize Winner of 'Book of the Year' and 'Debut of the Year' at the British Book Awards The Million-Copy Bestseller 'An amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' - The judges of the Booker Prize 'Shuggie Bain means so much to me. It is such a powerfully written story . . . I love a heartbreak book but there is so much love within this one, particularly between Shuggie and his mother Agnes.' - Dua Lipa It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life, dreaming of greater things. But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and as she descends deeper into drink, her 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, he is clearly 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. Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. For readers of A Little Life and Angela's Ashes, it is a heartbreaking novel by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell. 'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' - The Observer 'A heartbreaking novel' - The Times 'Tender and unsentimental . . . The Billy Elliot-ish character of Shuggie . . . leaps off the page.' - Daily Mail
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  1. Gripping reality with tragedy
    Sture Ragnar Wahlström, 17 april 2025

    A gripping biography, at the same time beautiful in its tragedy and the fate to which the author is left out. //Stu

  2. Oemotståndlig dystopi
    Ami, 21 januari 2024

    En färgstark skildring av de hårda villkoren i Glasgow i skuggan av 1980-talets gruvarbetarstrejk. Boken känns redan som en klassiker.

  3. Trovärdig barndomsskildring
    Marie , 4 augusti 2021

    En mycket välskriven, trovärdig och hoppingivande barndomsskildring, stundvis humoristisk mitt i det svåra, och med en värmande kärleksfull beskrivning av bandet mellan mor och barn.

  4. Glasgow, Mother and Sons
    Heather Daniel (Malmö), 26 juli 2021

    Välskriven, drabbande. Människorna, miljön och relationerna känns autentiska. Man upplever tillsammans med huvudaktörerna deras svåra verklighet.
    Trots eländet finns det ljusglimtar, humor och hopp.
    Delvis självbiografiskt, vilket gör det ännu mer imponerande.

  5. För liten text
    MaC, 9 april 2021

    Boken är svårläst utan förstoringsglas.
    Synd att textstorleken allmänt inte anges i anslutning till sidantal och mått.
    I övrigt är boken läsvärd.

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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 the Sue Kaufman Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction, the Kirkus Prize and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. He is also the author of Young Mungo and his short stories have appeared in the New Yorker and his essay on Gender, Anxiety and Class was published by Lit Hub. He lives in New York.