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 |