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Winner of the Booker Prize 2020! - It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. Shuggie is different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother's sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no' right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place. Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. A counterpart to the privileged Thatcher-era London of Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty, it also recalls the work of Edouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, a blistering debut by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.

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Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart

Vinder af Bookerprisen 2020 Glasgow i 1980’erne. Margaret Thatchers politik har affødt stor arbejdsløshed, og byen hærges af fattigdom og forfald. Midt i alt dette står den smukke Agnes Bain. Hun har altid haft store drømme og ønsker kun det allerbedste for sig selv og sine børn. Men da hendes mand forlader familien, falder alt fra hinanden, og mens Agnes dulmer smerten med alkohol og postordrevarer, forlader børnene hende én efter én. Tilbage er ...

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