Bibliograph

Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart

Type

Label

Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Shuggie Bain

Oclc number

1228911159

Responsibility statement

Douglas Stuart

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print basic

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

Table Of Contents

1992: The South Side -- 1981: Sighthill -- 1982: Pithead -- 1989: The East End -- 1992: The South Side

Target audience

adult

Classification