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Shuggie Bain / Book Club set Douglas Stuart.

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Shelf Location BookClub/S
Author Stuart, Douglas, 1976- author.
Title Shuggie Bain / / Douglas Stuart. : Book Club set
Publication Details London, England ::
2020. Picador,,
Collation 430 pages ; : 24 cm. ; 10 copies ;
Abstract/Summary Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, is a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. Married to a philandering taxi-driver husband, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good-but under the surface, Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away all the family has to live on--on cans of extra-strong lager hidden in handbags and poured into tea mugs. Agnes's older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to care for her as she swings between alcoholic binges and sobriety. Shuggie is meanwhile struggling to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realized that he is "no right," a boy with a secret that all but him can see. Agnes is supportive of her son, but her addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her--even her beloved Shuggie.
Subject Domestic fiction
Single mothers -- Fiction
Working class families -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- Fiction
Boys -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- Fiction
Women alcoholics -- Fiction
Glasgow (Scotland) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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