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Shuggie BainDouglas Stuart

Shuggie Bain

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22 editions · 9 languages
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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. Shuggie’s mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie’s guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. She dreams of a house with its own front door while she flicks through the pages of the Freemans catalogue, ordering a little happiness on credit, anything to brighten up her grey life.…

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Editions

22 editions · 9 languages
  • Audiobook · English · 2020
    Dreamscape Media Llc · 9781690564638
  • Audiobook · English · 2020
    Dreamscape Media · 9781690564621
  • Ebook · English · 2020
    Grove Press · 9780802148056
  • Paperback · English · 2020
    Picador · 9781529019285
  • Hardcover · English · 2020
    Picador · 9781529019278
  • Audiobook · English · 2020
    Dreamscape Media · 9781690564584
literary fictioncoming of agefamily lifeAmerican literatureFiction, family lifeScotland, fictionNew York Times bestsellerNew York Times reviewed