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Author:

Stuart, Douglas, 1976- author.

Title:

Shuggie Bain / Douglas Stuart.

Edition:

Large Print edition.

Publisher:

Thorndike Pressa part of Gale, a Cengage Company,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

695 pages (large print) ; 22 cm

Subject:

Boys--Glasgow--Glasgow--Fiction.
Working class families--Glasgow--Glasgow--Fiction.
Mothers and sons--Fiction.
Women alcoholics--Fiction.
Glasgow (Scotland)--Fiction.
Large type books.
Domestic fiction.

Summary:

"Young Hugh " Shuggie" Bain is a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Shuggie's mother Agnes is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away the lion's share of each week's benefits on cans of extra-strong lager. Agnes's older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to care for her. 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." -- page [4] of cover.

ISBN:

1432886940
9781432886943

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1228911159

LCCN:

2020057433

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

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TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

KWPE446 -- Mount Pleasant Public Library (Mount Pleasant)

CQPE926 -- Washington Free Public Library (Washington)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)

CJPC482 -- Williamsburg Public Library (Williamsburg)