Shuggie Bain
- Winner of the Booker Prize 2020
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- Hardback
- Sideantal:
- 448
- Udgivet:
- 6. august 2020
- Størrelse:
- 161x241x43 mm.
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- 690 g.
- 4-7 hverdage.
- 8. januar 2025
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Beskrivelse af Shuggie Bain
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 Edouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, a blistering debut by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.
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shuggie bain kan ikke forklares - den skal læses - den går lige i hjertet og man er ude af stand til at lave og tænke på andet i lang tid efter. Verden går fuldstændig i stå. Ingen anden bog har rørt mig så dybt. Vi har rejst meget i Skotland og været i Glasgow mange gange - så måske havde jeg let ved at gå turene i byen sammen med hovedpersonen.
Har ikke ord for bogen - læs den læs den. Jeg vil læse den igen og igen og igen.
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