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Stuart, Douglas, 1976-

Shuggie Bain : a novel / by Douglas Stuart - First Grove Atlantic paperback edition

1992, The south side -- 1981, Sighthill -- 1982, Pithead -- 1989, The east end -- 1992, The south side

The story of Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland, taking care of his beloved mother Agnes. Agnes is a proud, beautiful woman who turns herself out like her idol Elizabeth Taylor, but she is an alcoholic, and spends most of the family's weekly benefits money on alcohol. Shuggie is meanwhile doing all he can to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realized that Shuggie is "no right," and now Agnes's addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her, especially her beloved Shuggie

ISBN: 9780802148506 0802148506

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Boys--Scotland--Glasgow--20th century--Fiction
Gay youth--Scotland--20th century--Fiction
Landlord and tenant--Scotland--Glasgow--20th century--Fiction
Mothers and sons--Fiction
Public housing--Scotland--20th century--Fiction
Women alcoholics--Fiction
Working class families--Scotland--Glasgow--20th century--Fiction

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Glasgow (Scotland)--20th century--Fiction
Scotland--20th century--Fiction

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3619 .T828 / S58 2020