Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart - Winner of the Booker Prize - Fiction - Paperback

Details. Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781529019292. Publisher: Picador. Overview. Shuggie Bain is Douglas Stuart's blistering, Booker Prize-winning debut novel, a devastating yet tender portrait of a boy's love for his mother in 1980s Glasgow. Set against a backdrop of poverty and industrial decline, the novel follows young Shuggie as he tries to hold his family together while his mother Agnes battles addiction. Raw, lyrical, and unforgettable, it is widely regarded as one of the most important literary debuts of the last decade, and a modern classic of Scottish fiction.. About the Book. It is 1981, and Glasgow is dying; good families must scrap and grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life, dreaming of greater things beyond her tenement walls. But when her philandering husband abandons the family, Agnes turns to drink, and her three children are left to navigate the chaos she leaves behind. Shuggie, the youngest, is different from other boys, and while he tries desperately to become the son Agnes needs him to be, he also quietly begins to understand who he really is. One by one, his older siblings escape to save themselves, leaving Shuggie alone to care for his mother, chasing the elusive glimpses of the woman she once was. Spanning nearly a decade of Scottish history, this is a heartbreaking yet deeply humane story of resilience, addiction, and the unconditional, complicated love between a mother and son. Douglas Stuart's prose is sp...