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Shuggie Bain / Douglas Stuart.

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Record Number 866392
ISBN 9781432886943 (hardback)
Author Stuart, Douglas, 1976- author.
Title Shuggie Bain / Douglas Stuart.
Publisher/Date Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021.
Pagination etc. 695 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Contents note 1992: The South Side -- 1981: Sighthill -- 1982: Pithead -- 1989: The East End -- 1992: The South Side.
Summary Note "Young Hugh " Shuggie" Bain is a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Shuggie's mother Agnes is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away the lion's share of each week's benefits on cans of extra-strong lager. Agnes's older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to care for her. Shuggie is meanwhile struggling to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realised that he is "no right," a boy with a secret that all but him can see." -- Back cover.
Subject Boys -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- Fiction
Working class families -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- Fiction
Mothers and sons -- Fiction
Women alcoholics -- Fiction
Large print books
Glasgow (Scotland) -- Fiction
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Shelf Location LP STUA
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