Produkt
KlappentextWinner of the Booker Prize 2020
Winner of 'Book of the Year' at the British Book Awards 2021
Winner of 'Debut of the Year' at the British Book Awards 2021
'A heartbreaking novel' The Times
'An amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' - The judges of the Booker Prize
'Tender and unsentimental . . . and the Billy Elliot-ish character of Shuggie . . . leaps off the page.' ? Daily Mail
'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' - Observer
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, the 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 Frank McCourt, Edward St Aubyn and Hanya Yanagihara, it is a heartbreaking novel by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.
ZusammenfassungA 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.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-5290-1929-2
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2021
Erscheinungsdatum15.04.2021
AuflageMain Market Ed.
Seiten480 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht318 g
Artikel-Nr.57095697
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GenreRomane Taschenbuch