Shuggie Bain: Winner of the Booker Prize 2020
- ISBN-10
- 152901929X
- ISBN-13
- 9781529019292
- Series
- Shuggie Bain
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 430
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-03-12
- Publisher
- Picador
- Author
- Douglas Stuart
Description
A heart-wrenchingly moving first novel set in Glasgow during the Thatcher years, Shuggie Bain tells the story of a boy's doomed attempt to save his proud, alcoholic mother from her addiction.
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