TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stuart,Douglas
ED  - Grove Press,
TI  - Shuggie Bain: a novel 
SN  - 9780802148506
AV  - PS3619 .T828 S58 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Grove Press
KW  - Boys
KW  - Scotland
KW  - Glasgow
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Gay youth
KW  - Landlord and tenant
KW  - Mothers and sons
KW  - Public housing
KW  - Women alcoholics
KW  - Working class families
KW  - Glasgow (Scotland)
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Domestic fiction
N1  - 1992, The south side -- 1981, Sighthill -- 1982, Pithead -- 1989, The east end -- 1992, The south side
N2  - 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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