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02270aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 CE883FC0047611EB89AE83802EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201002011536 007 ta 008 200308s2020 enk 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1529019281 020 $a 9781529019285 020 $a 1529019273 020 $a 9781529019278 035 $a (OCoLC)1143614248 040 $a ATCDL $b eng $e rda $c ATCDL $d YDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDXIT $d SILO 043 $a e-uk-st 050 4 $a PS3619 T828 S48x 2020 100 1 $a Stuart, Douglas, $d 1976- $e author. 245 10 $a Shuggie Bain / $c Douglas Stuart. 264 1 $a London, England : $b Picador, $c 2020. 300 $a 430 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, is 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. Married to a philandering taxi-driver husband, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good-but under the surface, Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away all the family has to live on--on cans of extra-strong lager hidden in handbags and poured into tea mugs. Agnes's older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to care for her as she swings between alcoholic binges and sobriety. Shuggie is meanwhile struggling to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realized that he is "no right," a boy with a secret that all but him can see. Agnes is supportive of her son, but her addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her--even her beloved Shuggie. 650 0 $a Alcoholism $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Poverty $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Children of alcoholics $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Dysfunctional families $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Glasgow (Scotland) $x Social conditions $y 20th century $v Fiction. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230302015912.0 952 $l ZXPC675 $d 20210113010622.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CE883FC0047611EB89AE83802EECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search