Shuggie Bain: Winner of the Booker Prize 2020
| ISBN | 9781529019285 |
| Yayınevi | Picador |
| Yazarlar | Yayınevi: Picador (author) |
| Kitap Tanıtımı | A heartbreaking novel, a book both beautiful and brutal . . . All that grief and sadness and misery has been turned into something tough, tender and beautifully sad. ― The TimesLeaves us gutted and marvelling: Life may be short, but it takes forever. ― New York TimesRarely does a debut novel establish its world with such sure-footedness, and Stuart’s prose is lithe, lyrical and full of revelatory descriptive insights. -- Alex Preston ― ObserverAn astonishing portrait, drawn from life, of a society left to die . . . Shuggie Bain has been longlisted for the Booker Prize. In a just world, it would win. ― Daily TelegraphShuggie Bain comes from a deep understanding of the relationship between a child and a substance-abusing parent, showing a world rarely portrayed in literary fiction . . . Admirable and important. -- Sarah Moss ― GuardianThis is a dysfunctional love story . . . between a boy and his mother . . . what makes his book a worthy contender for the Booker is his portrayal of their bond, together with all its perpetual damage. ― Financial TimesDouglas Stuart’s startling Glasgow-set debut novel creates a world of poverty and suffering offset by pure, heart-filling, love . . . It’s a novel that deserves, and will surely often get, a second reading. -- Allan Massie ― ScotsmanShuggie Bain is a novel that aims for the heart and finds it. -- John Self ― The TimesTender and unsentimental . . . and the Billy Elliot-ish character of Shuggie . . . leaps off the page. ― Daily MailBeautiful and bleak but with enough warmth and optimism to carry the reader through. -- Graham Norton ) |
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