4.4
Romans literatuur
Winner of the Booker Prize 2020 Winner of 'Book of the Year' at the British Book Awards 2021 Winner of 'Debut of the Year' at the British Book Awards 2021
'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty' – Observer
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 and fussy, he shares his mother’s sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no’ right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place.
Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. A counterpart to the privileged Thatcher-era London of Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty, it also recalls the work of Édouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, a blistering debut by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.
'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
© 2020 Picador (Luisterboek): 9781529019315
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 20 februari 2020
4.4
Romans literatuur
Winner of the Booker Prize 2020 Winner of 'Book of the Year' at the British Book Awards 2021 Winner of 'Debut of the Year' at the British Book Awards 2021
'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty' – Observer
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 and fussy, he shares his mother’s sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no’ right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place.
Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. A counterpart to the privileged Thatcher-era London of Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty, it also recalls the work of Édouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, a blistering debut by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.
'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
© 2020 Picador (Luisterboek): 9781529019315
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 20 februari 2020
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Mirjam
27 jan 2022
Prachtig voorgelezen, warme personen, je gunt ze de wereld.
Anita
28 nov 2023
What an excellent read. It’s a story that happens to many. Sad but shows the true love of sons. It funny humor made me laugh many times. I recommend this book highly.Well done to all in the making.
Karin
29 nov 2021
Ongelofelijk goed, prachtige kleurige verwoordingen.
Maartje
18 jun 2021
Impressive. Fantasticly read aloud!!
Sophie
10 mrt 2024
Excellent book spoken in the most adequate English! You have to be able to understand it, though…:)
Elise
19 mrt 2021
What a pleasure!
Susan
3 mrt 2021
Billy Elliot meets Angela’s ashes meets The full monty. What a sad story that has you howling with laughter at times too. But there is resilience too and hope and love.
Moniqqa
9 feb 2024
What a great story. Well told and well read. It’s working class Glasgow in the 80s and 90s. Shuggy Bain’s mother is an alcoholic, but he loves her very much and wants to save her, make her better. It’s heart wrenching. Sad and funny.
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