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Douglas Stuart: Shuggie Bain (The Winner of Booker Prize 2020)

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.
ISBN: 9781529019292
Author: Douglas Stuart
Page: 448
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2021
Format: Book
Publisher: PICADOR
Language: English

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Price: 4 725 Ft

Stock: 1-10 copies

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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 isdifferent, 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.

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