Shuggie Bain

Name: Shuggie Bain
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Douglas Stuart
ISBN: 9780802148049

Douglas Stuart • 2020

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread

poverty addiction family grief literary fiction loss

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Our Take

Shuggie loves his mother and his mother is an alcoholic and Glasgow in the 1980s is a city being hollowed out. Stuart writes poverty and addiction and a boy's devotion with no distance whatsoever. Agnes Bain is one of the most devastating characters in contemporary fiction — beautiful, destructive, and impossible to leave.

Appears In

► Addiction in Fiction ► Multigenerational Tragedy — The Damage That Compounds ► The Great Depression — When the Economy Becomes a Catastrophe ► Class and Wealth — The Cruelty of the Hierarchy

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