- literary fiction, coming of age, family life, American literature
Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, 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.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and prestige.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Douglas Stuart
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 538
- Publisher
- Can Sanat Yayinlari, Edicions de 1984, Nieuw Amsterdam
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- tur, Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9788740069174
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