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It’s hard to believe that this is Douglas Stuart’s first novel - for a taste of his writing read his New Yorker story (his first published piece!). It is nothing short of astonishing – the language, the characterization, the world – it is, in a word, gallus. Or, in three words, pure dead brilliant. I just finished re-reading it today and I cried my eyes out again laughin and greetin.
Shuggie Bain is a wee boy growing up in 1980s Glasgow. And his world is Agnes Bain, his glamorous, calamitous mot ...more
Shuggie Bain is a wee boy growing up in 1980s Glasgow. And his world is Agnes Bain, his glamorous, calamitous mot ...more
At Chapter 2: Listening to this is like watching Law and Order: SVU in reverse, each chapter ends with a harrowing crime and starts with stoic characters.
I only stayed because Angus King read it so well but this was so long and so bleak, the glimmer of hope was 2/3rds into the book and of course, that didn't last. Even the "epilogue" was yet another version of the same bleak story. I was like Shuggie; I kept going back to this knowing that it is so hard to love and I had last touch. ...more
I only stayed because Angus King read it so well but this was so long and so bleak, the glimmer of hope was 2/3rds into the book and of course, that didn't last. Even the "epilogue" was yet another version of the same bleak story. I was like Shuggie; I kept going back to this knowing that it is so hard to love and I had last touch. ...more
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