Winner of The Booker 2020 Prize for Fiction Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2020 We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love. The judges of the Booker Prize. 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...
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2022-03-31
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Betyg: 5 av 5 - 📚 - Och nu har även jag äntligen läst den här omskrivna och omtyckta debutromanen av den Glasgow-födda och New York-boende författaren Douglas Stuart. Och var den då så bra som ”alla” tycker? Ja, det tycker jag faktiskt. Jag tycker att det var en fantastisk uppväxtskildring av den skotske pojken Shuggie Bain. Gripande och eländig, men också humoristisk och kärleksfull. Kan absolut varmt rekommendera boken.
