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Every city needs a book like Shuggie Bain, one where the powers of description are so strong you can almost smell the chip-fat and pub-smoke steaming from its pages, and hear the particular, localized slang ringing in your ears .  11,50 €, 9,00 € . Dispatched from the UK in 3 business days. We are thrilled to share with you a reading from "Shuggie Bain", the debut novel by Scots author, Douglas Stuart. The Book Depository; Google Play; iBooks; Kindle; Kobo; Waterstones; WHSmiths; Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart | 16 mins. FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION, FINALIST FOR THE L.A TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION, FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE, FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA AWARD FOR GAY FICTION, FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION, FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION DEBUT NOVEL PRIZE, LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE, LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION, THE WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020, Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times and the Washington Post, Named a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times, NPR, TIME, BuzzFeed, the Economist, the Times (UK), the Independent (UK), the Daily Telegraph (UK), Barnes & Noble, Kirkus Reviews, the New York Public Library, the Chicago Public Library, and the Washington Independent Review of Books, —Garrard Conley, New York Times-bestselling author of Boy Erased. Thatcher’s policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city’s notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. -- Alex Preston * Observer * Leaves us gutted and marvelling: Life may be short, but it takes forever. . No way to fake the talent either. Readers may get through the whole novel without breaking down-then read the first sentence of the acknowledgements and lose it. {"bd_js_shop":"Shop","bd_js_too_long_for_shipping_label":"Sorry, that's too long for our shipping labels","bd_js_too_long":"Sorry, that's too long","bd_js_could_not_find_address_try_again":"Sorry, we couldn't find the address. * Newsday * Beautiful and bleak but with enough warmth and optimism to carry the reader through. . Find books like Shuggie Bain from the world’s largest community of readers. . * Washington Post * An outstanding book . The day was flat. It’s also the Booker-longlisted best book of the summer. . I'll never forget Shuggie and Agnes or the incredibly detailed Glasgow they inhabit. . Available.  8,30 €, 7,97 € * Daily Telegraph * Rarely does a debut novel establish its world with such sure-footedness, and Stuart's prose is lithe, lyrical and full of revelatory descriptive insights.  12,90 €, 16,95 € .  11,50 €, 20,89 € September 15, 2020 heaneymedia Argyll and Bute, Balloch, BOOK REVIEWS, Dumbarton, Helensburgh, Latest News, Scotland Wide, West Dunbartonshire Leave a comment. It’s truly wonderful. It turns over the ugly side of humanity to find the softness and the beauty underneath . * New York Times * A heartbreaking novel, a book both beautiful and brutal . I'll be thinking and talking about Shuggie Bain - and teaching it - for quite some time. Some books never leave you. Shuggie Bain is a wrenching, unforgettable debut. . Shuggie Bain is his debut novel.  14,00 €, 7,79 € Every city needs a book like Shuggie Bain, one where the powers of description are so strong you can almost smell the chip-fat and pub-smoke steaming from its pages, and hear the particular, localized slang ringing in your ears . Book reviews. In poverty-stricken 1980s Glasgow, Agnes is the beloved daughter of hardworking Catholics. is rightly being heralded for its visceral, emotionally nuanced portrayal of working class Scottish life and its blazingly intimate exploration of a mother-son relationship. One.  11,50 €, 12,24 € .  18,00 €, 15,04 € FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. We use cookies and similar tools, including those used by approved third parties (collectively, "cookies") for the purposes described below. The Book Depository Ltd.UK. Available. . SHUGGIE BAIN: Book review by Barry Pierce. including ads relevant to your interests on Book Depository and to work with approved third parties in the process of delivering ad content, including ads relevant to your interests, to measure the effectiveness of their ads, and to perform services on behalf of Book Depository. . -- Sarah Moss * Guardian * An astonishing portrait, drawn from life, of a society left to die . It has also been longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction. . It turns over the ugly side of humanity to find the softness and the beauty underneath . . ELLE - The Best Books Of 2020. between a boy and his mother . for example, to keep track of items stored in your shopping basket, prevent fraudulent activity, improve the security of our services, keep track of your specific preferences (such as currency or language preferences), and display features, products and services that might be of interest to you. . Very highly recommended -- Library Journal starred review Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1980s is the backdrop for this story of the fraught bond between a young boy and his mother. Compulsively readable... As [the novel] beautifully and shockingly illustrates how Shuggie ends up alone, this novel offers a testament to the indomitable human spirit. The choices you make here will apply to your interaction with this service on this device. It's a novel that deserves, and will surely often get, a second reading. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. . * Financial Times * Shuggie Bain comes from a deep understanding of the relationship between a child and a substance-abusing parent, showing a world rarely portrayed in literary fiction . Douglas Stuart was born and raised in Glasgow. -- Sandra Newman, author of The Heavens A rare and haunting ode to 1980s Glasgow and its struggling communities, Shuggie Bain tells the story of a collapsing family that is lashed together by love alone. In a just world, it would win.  11,50 €, 11,31 € . Every city needs a book like Shuggie Bain. * Daily Mail * Shuggie Bain is a novel that aims for the heart and finds it. But most of all, Shuggie Bain is a novel of addiction, and as is the way with addicts, Agnes belligerently demands the bulk of the book’s attention. .  25,00 €, 21,00 € In the tradition of lyrical realism, characters are rendered with astonishing depth, scenes are pushed to the edge by palpable authorial courage, and the language is marked by exquisite sensitivity. You must be delighted at the reception your book is getting. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. x 241  10,30 €, 8,84 €  11,50 €, 8,86 € x 45mm I kept being reminded of Joyce's Dubliners. .  11,50 €, 4,99 €  10,50 €, 10,75 € Excerpt from “Shuggie Bain” by Douglas Stuart. -- Allan Massie * Scotsman * This is a dysfunctional love story .  18,00 €, 9,29 € We use cookies to understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements. .  11,50 €, 9,96 € It turns over the ugly side of humanity to find the softness and the beauty underneath . -- Karl Geary, author of Montpelier Parade There's no way to fake the life experience that forms the bedrock of Douglas Stuart's wonderful Shuggie Bain. .  11,50 €, 8,96 € Browse The Guardian Bookshop for a big selection of Fiction books and the latest book reviews from The Guardian and The Observer Buy Shuggie Bain 9781529019278 by Douglas Stuart for only £13.04 JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. © 2021  Every city needs a book like Shuggie Bain, one where the powers of description are so strong you can almost smell the chip-fat and pub-smoke steaming from its pages, and hear the particular, localized slang ringing in your ears . -- Kirkus Reviews starred review A formidable story, lyrically told, about intimacy, family, and love.  18,00 €, 17,17 € It tells the story of the youngest of the three children, Shuggie, growing up with his alcoholic mother, Agnes, in the 1980s, in a post-industrial working-class Glasgow, Scotland. * LitHub * A debut novel that reads like a masterpiece, Shuggie Bain gives voice to the kind of helpless, hopeless love that children can feel toward broken parents. Agnes, daughter of Liz, is one of these women. . It has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Kirkus Prize and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. All that grief and sadness and misery has been turned into something tough, tender and beautifully sad.  19,10 €, 10,45 € . Thatcher’s policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the … It turns over the ugly side of humanity to find the softness and the beauty underneath . Laying bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride, Shuggie Bain is a blistering and heartbreaking debut, and an exploration of the unsinkable love that only children can have for their damaged parents. Once read, they sit in the background of your mind, resurfacing whenever life confronts you with the story's subject matter.  12,90 €, 11,00 €  32,50 €, 15,95 € . 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This is not a book to miss. There is a powerful, if wearying, consistency in her perpetual relapses, her outrageous lies and public spectacles, as well as in Shuggie’s thwarted attempts to get out from under her. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. . Douglas Stuart’s first novel steps into the literary lineage of Joyce’s Dubliners. . .  21,10 €, 8,13 € . But the depiction pales in comparison to the sheer, knock-out force of what he managed to create with Agnes. The effect is remarkable, it will make you cry. Shuggie’s mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie’s guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. We use cookies to serve you certain types of ads, Hardback  13,00 €, 17,42 € In the same vein as Yanagihara's A Little Life (also shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Shuggie Bain is brutal to the point of having to put the book down at times. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart is published by Picador, 430pp, £14.99. About the Author. Douglas Stuart. Raw, formidable, bursting with tenderness and frailty. For example, we use cookies to conduct research and diagnostics to improve our content, products and services, and to measure and analyse the performance of our services. Admirable and important. Elle 'Magnificent . . . |, 163 His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker and his essay on Gender, Anxiety and Class was published by Lit Hub. . “For me, ‘Shuggie Bain’ is a love story,” Douglas Stuart said of his book, which is about the gay son of an alcoholic mother. O, the Oprah Magazine 'A boy's heartbreaking love for his mother . .  11,50 €, 7,98 € WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. 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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD.  21,60 €, 15,85 € Douglas Stuart was born and raised in Glasgow. Every city needs a book like Shuggie Bain, one where the powers of description are so strong you can almost smell the chip-fat and pub-smoke steaming from its pages, and hear the particular, localized slang ringing in your ears .  11,50 €, 9,00 € . Dispatched from the UK in 3 business days. We are thrilled to share with you a reading from "Shuggie Bain", the debut novel by Scots author, Douglas Stuart. The Book Depository; Google Play; iBooks; Kindle; Kobo; Waterstones; WHSmiths; Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart | 16 mins. FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION, FINALIST FOR THE L.A TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION, FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE, FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA AWARD FOR GAY FICTION, FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION, FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION DEBUT NOVEL PRIZE, LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE, LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION, THE WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020, Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times and the Washington Post, Named a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times, NPR, TIME, BuzzFeed, the Economist, the Times (UK), the Independent (UK), the Daily Telegraph (UK), Barnes & Noble, Kirkus Reviews, the New York Public Library, the Chicago Public Library, and the Washington Independent Review of Books, —Garrard Conley, New York Times-bestselling author of Boy Erased. Thatcher’s policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city’s notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. -- Alex Preston * Observer * Leaves us gutted and marvelling: Life may be short, but it takes forever. . No way to fake the talent either. Readers may get through the whole novel without breaking down-then read the first sentence of the acknowledgements and lose it. {"bd_js_shop":"Shop","bd_js_too_long_for_shipping_label":"Sorry, that's too long for our shipping labels","bd_js_too_long":"Sorry, that's too long","bd_js_could_not_find_address_try_again":"Sorry, we couldn't find the address. * Newsday * Beautiful and bleak but with enough warmth and optimism to carry the reader through. . Find books like Shuggie Bain from the world’s largest community of readers. . * Washington Post * An outstanding book . The day was flat. It’s also the Booker-longlisted best book of the summer. . I'll never forget Shuggie and Agnes or the incredibly detailed Glasgow they inhabit. . Available.  8,30 €, 7,97 € * Daily Telegraph * Rarely does a debut novel establish its world with such sure-footedness, and Stuart's prose is lithe, lyrical and full of revelatory descriptive insights.  12,90 €, 16,95 € .  11,50 €, 20,89 € September 15, 2020 heaneymedia Argyll and Bute, Balloch, BOOK REVIEWS, Dumbarton, Helensburgh, Latest News, Scotland Wide, West Dunbartonshire Leave a comment. It’s truly wonderful. It turns over the ugly side of humanity to find the softness and the beauty underneath . * New York Times * A heartbreaking novel, a book both beautiful and brutal . I'll be thinking and talking about Shuggie Bain - and teaching it - for quite some time. Some books never leave you. Shuggie Bain is a wrenching, unforgettable debut. . Shuggie Bain is his debut novel.  14,00 €, 7,79 € Every city needs a book like Shuggie Bain, one where the powers of description are so strong you can almost smell the chip-fat and pub-smoke steaming from its pages, and hear the particular, localized slang ringing in your ears . Book reviews. In poverty-stricken 1980s Glasgow, Agnes is the beloved daughter of hardworking Catholics. is rightly being heralded for its visceral, emotionally nuanced portrayal of working class Scottish life and its blazingly intimate exploration of a mother-son relationship. One.  11,50 €, 12,24 € .  18,00 €, 15,04 € FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. We use cookies and similar tools, including those used by approved third parties (collectively, "cookies") for the purposes described below. The Book Depository Ltd.UK. Available. . SHUGGIE BAIN: Book review by Barry Pierce. including ads relevant to your interests on Book Depository and to work with approved third parties in the process of delivering ad content, including ads relevant to your interests, to measure the effectiveness of their ads, and to perform services on behalf of Book Depository. . -- Sarah Moss * Guardian * An astonishing portrait, drawn from life, of a society left to die . It has also been longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction. . It turns over the ugly side of humanity to find the softness and the beauty underneath . . ELLE - The Best Books Of 2020. between a boy and his mother . for example, to keep track of items stored in your shopping basket, prevent fraudulent activity, improve the security of our services, keep track of your specific preferences (such as currency or language preferences), and display features, products and services that might be of interest to you. . Very highly recommended -- Library Journal starred review Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1980s is the backdrop for this story of the fraught bond between a young boy and his mother. Compulsively readable... As [the novel] beautifully and shockingly illustrates how Shuggie ends up alone, this novel offers a testament to the indomitable human spirit. The choices you make here will apply to your interaction with this service on this device. It's a novel that deserves, and will surely often get, a second reading. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. . * Financial Times * Shuggie Bain comes from a deep understanding of the relationship between a child and a substance-abusing parent, showing a world rarely portrayed in literary fiction . Douglas Stuart was born and raised in Glasgow. -- Sandra Newman, author of The Heavens A rare and haunting ode to 1980s Glasgow and its struggling communities, Shuggie Bain tells the story of a collapsing family that is lashed together by love alone. In a just world, it would win.  11,50 €, 11,31 € . Every city needs a book like Shuggie Bain. * Daily Mail * Shuggie Bain is a novel that aims for the heart and finds it. But most of all, Shuggie Bain is a novel of addiction, and as is the way with addicts, Agnes belligerently demands the bulk of the book’s attention. .  25,00 €, 21,00 € In the tradition of lyrical realism, characters are rendered with astonishing depth, scenes are pushed to the edge by palpable authorial courage, and the language is marked by exquisite sensitivity. You must be delighted at the reception your book is getting. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. x 241  10,30 €, 8,84 €  11,50 €, 8,86 € x 45mm I kept being reminded of Joyce's Dubliners. .  11,50 €, 4,99 €  10,50 €, 10,75 € Excerpt from “Shuggie Bain” by Douglas Stuart. -- Allan Massie * Scotsman * This is a dysfunctional love story .  18,00 €, 9,29 € We use cookies to understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements. .  11,50 €, 9,96 € It turns over the ugly side of humanity to find the softness and the beauty underneath . -- Karl Geary, author of Montpelier Parade There's no way to fake the life experience that forms the bedrock of Douglas Stuart's wonderful Shuggie Bain. .  11,50 €, 8,96 € Browse The Guardian Bookshop for a big selection of Fiction books and the latest book reviews from The Guardian and The Observer Buy Shuggie Bain 9781529019278 by Douglas Stuart for only £13.04 JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. © 2021  Every city needs a book like Shuggie Bain, one where the powers of description are so strong you can almost smell the chip-fat and pub-smoke steaming from its pages, and hear the particular, localized slang ringing in your ears . -- Kirkus Reviews starred review A formidable story, lyrically told, about intimacy, family, and love.  18,00 €, 17,17 € It tells the story of the youngest of the three children, Shuggie, growing up with his alcoholic mother, Agnes, in the 1980s, in a post-industrial working-class Glasgow, Scotland. * LitHub * A debut novel that reads like a masterpiece, Shuggie Bain gives voice to the kind of helpless, hopeless love that children can feel toward broken parents. Agnes, daughter of Liz, is one of these women. . It has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Kirkus Prize and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. All that grief and sadness and misery has been turned into something tough, tender and beautifully sad.  19,10 €, 10,45 € . Thatcher’s policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the … It turns over the ugly side of humanity to find the softness and the beauty underneath . Laying bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride, Shuggie Bain is a blistering and heartbreaking debut, and an exploration of the unsinkable love that only children can have for their damaged parents. Once read, they sit in the background of your mind, resurfacing whenever life confronts you with the story's subject matter.  12,90 €, 11,00 €  32,50 €, 15,95 € . 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This is not a book to miss. There is a powerful, if wearying, consistency in her perpetual relapses, her outrageous lies and public spectacles, as well as in Shuggie’s thwarted attempts to get out from under her. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. . Douglas Stuart’s first novel steps into the literary lineage of Joyce’s Dubliners. . .  21,10 €, 8,13 € . But the depiction pales in comparison to the sheer, knock-out force of what he managed to create with Agnes. The effect is remarkable, it will make you cry. Shuggie’s mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie’s guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. We use cookies to serve you certain types of ads, Hardback  13,00 €, 17,42 € In the same vein as Yanagihara's A Little Life (also shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Shuggie Bain is brutal to the point of having to put the book down at times. 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-- Graham Norton (via Twitter) Tender and unsentimental . Stuart writes about Shuggie, a lonely, loving boy struggling with his sexuality, with skill. Shuggie Bain is a Glasgow-set tale of crumbling families, ruinous addiction and blossoming sexuality. Expected delivery to Slovenia in 9-21 business days. Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. -- John Self * The Times * Douglas Stuart's startling Glasgow-set debut novel creates a world of poverty and suffering offset by pure, heart-filling, love .  11,50 €, 29,45 € February 11, 2020 Witness the tragic descent of Agnes Bain through the loving eyes of her youngest son, Shuggie. After graduating from the Royal College of Art, he moved to New York, where he began a career in design.  8,95 €, 8,61 € Shuggie will knock you sideways * Richard Russo * Shuggie Bain is an intimate and frighteningly acute exploration of a mother-son relationship and a masterful portrait of alcoholism in Scottish working class life, rendered with old-school lyrical realism . Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart Review by Mari Carlson.  19,10 €, 9,94 € FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. That morning his mind had abandoned him and left his body wandering down below. Known for her elegance and beauty, and already married with two children, she wins the heart of a charismatic taxi … Magnificently done .  10,50 €, 16,36 € She is devoted to her second husband Shug who treats her cruelly. what makes his book a worthy contender for the Booker is his portrayal of their bond, together with all its perpetual damage. You can learn more about how we (plus approved third parties) use cookies and how to change your settings by visiting the Cookies notice. You will never forget Shuggie Bain. -- 'The 22 Best Books to Read This Winter' * Vogue (US) * Every now and then a novel comes along that feels necessary and inevitable. . The empty body went listlessly through its routine, pale and vacant-eyed under the fluorescent strip lights, as his soul floated above the aisles and thought only of tomorrow. . The day was flat. -- Garrard Conley, New York Times-bestselling author of Boy Erased A dark shining work. Douglas Stuart, the author of the Man Booker Shortlisted Shuggie Bain, gives us a peek at some of his favourite Scottish books.  9,30 €, 9,43 € The emotional truth embodied here will crack you open. 15,23 €  11,50 €, 8,99 € And another mighty congratulations are in order too – Shuggie Bain has been announced as a contender on the Booker Prize longlist. Kirkus Review (starred review) 'It's a formidable story, lyrically told, about intimacy, family, and love.' .  11,50 €, 9,46 € . Its richly rendered events will give you a lot to talk about.' . Set in the early 1980s Shuggie Bain opens with a group of women sitting around a table playing cards for pin money.  11,50 €, 10,06 €  19,10 €, 27,89 € The book's evocative power arises out of the author's talent for conjuring a place, a time, and the texture of emotion .  24,00 €, 14,47 €  17,00 €, 18,38 € Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. . Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty. Please try again","bd_saving_percent_off":"{0}%
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Every city needs a book like Shuggie Bain, one where the powers of description are so strong you can almost smell the chip-fat and pub-smoke steaming from its pages, and hear the particular, localized slang ringing in your ears .  11,50 €, 9,00 € . Dispatched from the UK in 3 business days. We are thrilled to share with you a reading from "Shuggie Bain", the debut novel by Scots author, Douglas Stuart. The Book Depository; Google Play; iBooks; Kindle; Kobo; Waterstones; WHSmiths; Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart | 16 mins. FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION, FINALIST FOR THE L.A TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION, FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE, FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA AWARD FOR GAY FICTION, FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION, FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION DEBUT NOVEL PRIZE, LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE, LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION, THE WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020, Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times and the Washington Post, Named a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times, NPR, TIME, BuzzFeed, the Economist, the Times (UK), the Independent (UK), the Daily Telegraph (UK), Barnes & Noble, Kirkus Reviews, the New York Public Library, the Chicago Public Library, and the Washington Independent Review of Books, —Garrard Conley, New York Times-bestselling author of Boy Erased. Thatcher’s policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city’s notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. -- Alex Preston * Observer * Leaves us gutted and marvelling: Life may be short, but it takes forever. . No way to fake the talent either. Readers may get through the whole novel without breaking down-then read the first sentence of the acknowledgements and lose it. {"bd_js_shop":"Shop","bd_js_too_long_for_shipping_label":"Sorry, that's too long for our shipping labels","bd_js_too_long":"Sorry, that's too long","bd_js_could_not_find_address_try_again":"Sorry, we couldn't find the address. * Newsday * Beautiful and bleak but with enough warmth and optimism to carry the reader through. . Find books like Shuggie Bain from the world’s largest community of readers. . * Washington Post * An outstanding book . The day was flat. It’s also the Booker-longlisted best book of the summer. . I'll never forget Shuggie and Agnes or the incredibly detailed Glasgow they inhabit. . Available.  8,30 €, 7,97 € * Daily Telegraph * Rarely does a debut novel establish its world with such sure-footedness, and Stuart's prose is lithe, lyrical and full of revelatory descriptive insights.  12,90 €, 16,95 € .  11,50 €, 20,89 € September 15, 2020 heaneymedia Argyll and Bute, Balloch, BOOK REVIEWS, Dumbarton, Helensburgh, Latest News, Scotland Wide, West Dunbartonshire Leave a comment. It’s truly wonderful. It turns over the ugly side of humanity to find the softness and the beauty underneath . * New York Times * A heartbreaking novel, a book both beautiful and brutal . I'll be thinking and talking about Shuggie Bain - and teaching it - for quite some time. Some books never leave you. Shuggie Bain is a wrenching, unforgettable debut. . Shuggie Bain is his debut novel.  14,00 €, 7,79 € Every city needs a book like Shuggie Bain, one where the powers of description are so strong you can almost smell the chip-fat and pub-smoke steaming from its pages, and hear the particular, localized slang ringing in your ears . Book reviews. In poverty-stricken 1980s Glasgow, Agnes is the beloved daughter of hardworking Catholics. is rightly being heralded for its visceral, emotionally nuanced portrayal of working class Scottish life and its blazingly intimate exploration of a mother-son relationship. One.  11,50 €, 12,24 € .  18,00 €, 15,04 € FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. We use cookies and similar tools, including those used by approved third parties (collectively, "cookies") for the purposes described below. The Book Depository Ltd.UK. Available. . SHUGGIE BAIN: Book review by Barry Pierce. including ads relevant to your interests on Book Depository and to work with approved third parties in the process of delivering ad content, including ads relevant to your interests, to measure the effectiveness of their ads, and to perform services on behalf of Book Depository. . -- Sarah Moss * Guardian * An astonishing portrait, drawn from life, of a society left to die . It has also been longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction. . It turns over the ugly side of humanity to find the softness and the beauty underneath . . ELLE - The Best Books Of 2020. between a boy and his mother . for example, to keep track of items stored in your shopping basket, prevent fraudulent activity, improve the security of our services, keep track of your specific preferences (such as currency or language preferences), and display features, products and services that might be of interest to you. . Very highly recommended -- Library Journal starred review Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1980s is the backdrop for this story of the fraught bond between a young boy and his mother. Compulsively readable... As [the novel] beautifully and shockingly illustrates how Shuggie ends up alone, this novel offers a testament to the indomitable human spirit. The choices you make here will apply to your interaction with this service on this device. It's a novel that deserves, and will surely often get, a second reading. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. . * Financial Times * Shuggie Bain comes from a deep understanding of the relationship between a child and a substance-abusing parent, showing a world rarely portrayed in literary fiction . Douglas Stuart was born and raised in Glasgow. -- Sandra Newman, author of The Heavens A rare and haunting ode to 1980s Glasgow and its struggling communities, Shuggie Bain tells the story of a collapsing family that is lashed together by love alone. In a just world, it would win.  11,50 €, 11,31 € . Every city needs a book like Shuggie Bain. * Daily Mail * Shuggie Bain is a novel that aims for the heart and finds it. But most of all, Shuggie Bain is a novel of addiction, and as is the way with addicts, Agnes belligerently demands the bulk of the book’s attention. .  25,00 €, 21,00 € In the tradition of lyrical realism, characters are rendered with astonishing depth, scenes are pushed to the edge by palpable authorial courage, and the language is marked by exquisite sensitivity. You must be delighted at the reception your book is getting. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. x 241  10,30 €, 8,84 €  11,50 €, 8,86 € x 45mm I kept being reminded of Joyce's Dubliners. .  11,50 €, 4,99 €  10,50 €, 10,75 € Excerpt from “Shuggie Bain” by Douglas Stuart. -- Allan Massie * Scotsman * This is a dysfunctional love story .  18,00 €, 9,29 € We use cookies to understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements. .  11,50 €, 9,96 € It turns over the ugly side of humanity to find the softness and the beauty underneath . -- Karl Geary, author of Montpelier Parade There's no way to fake the life experience that forms the bedrock of Douglas Stuart's wonderful Shuggie Bain. .  11,50 €, 8,96 € Browse The Guardian Bookshop for a big selection of Fiction books and the latest book reviews from The Guardian and The Observer Buy Shuggie Bain 9781529019278 by Douglas Stuart for only £13.04 JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. © 2021  Every city needs a book like Shuggie Bain, one where the powers of description are so strong you can almost smell the chip-fat and pub-smoke steaming from its pages, and hear the particular, localized slang ringing in your ears . -- Kirkus Reviews starred review A formidable story, lyrically told, about intimacy, family, and love.  18,00 €, 17,17 € It tells the story of the youngest of the three children, Shuggie, growing up with his alcoholic mother, Agnes, in the 1980s, in a post-industrial working-class Glasgow, Scotland. * LitHub * A debut novel that reads like a masterpiece, Shuggie Bain gives voice to the kind of helpless, hopeless love that children can feel toward broken parents. Agnes, daughter of Liz, is one of these women. . It has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Kirkus Prize and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. All that grief and sadness and misery has been turned into something tough, tender and beautifully sad.  19,10 €, 10,45 € . Thatcher’s policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the … It turns over the ugly side of humanity to find the softness and the beauty underneath . Laying bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride, Shuggie Bain is a blistering and heartbreaking debut, and an exploration of the unsinkable love that only children can have for their damaged parents. Once read, they sit in the background of your mind, resurfacing whenever life confronts you with the story's subject matter.  12,90 €, 11,00 €  32,50 €, 15,95 € . 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This is not a book to miss. There is a powerful, if wearying, consistency in her perpetual relapses, her outrageous lies and public spectacles, as well as in Shuggie’s thwarted attempts to get out from under her. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. . Douglas Stuart’s first novel steps into the literary lineage of Joyce’s Dubliners. . .  21,10 €, 8,13 € . But the depiction pales in comparison to the sheer, knock-out force of what he managed to create with Agnes. The effect is remarkable, it will make you cry. Shuggie’s mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie’s guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. We use cookies to serve you certain types of ads, Hardback  13,00 €, 17,42 € In the same vein as Yanagihara's A Little Life (also shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Shuggie Bain is brutal to the point of having to put the book down at times. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart is published by Picador, 430pp, £14.99. About the Author. Douglas Stuart. Raw, formidable, bursting with tenderness and frailty. For example, we use cookies to conduct research and diagnostics to improve our content, products and services, and to measure and analyse the performance of our services. Admirable and important. Elle 'Magnificent . . . |, 163 His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker and his essay on Gender, Anxiety and Class was published by Lit Hub. . “For me, ‘Shuggie Bain’ is a love story,” Douglas Stuart said of his book, which is about the gay son of an alcoholic mother. O, the Oprah Magazine 'A boy's heartbreaking love for his mother . .  11,50 €, 7,98 € WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. 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