Shuggie Bain : a novel / by Douglas Stuart

By:

Stuart, Douglas, 1976-

Contributor(s):

Grove Press

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780802148506
0802148506

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

LOC classification:

PS3619 .T828 S58 2020

Contents:

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

Summary: 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

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	NMC Library	Stacks	PS3619 .T828 S58 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		33039001459543

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