{"product_id":"shuggiebain","title":"Shuggie Bain: Winner of the Booker Prize 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Booker Prize 2020, Winner of 'Book of the Year' at the British Book Awards 2021, Winner of 'Debut of the Year' at the British Book Awards 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' - Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' - The judges of the Booker Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eIt is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life, dreaming of greater things. But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and 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, he is clearly no' right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eBut Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eShuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. For readers of Frank McCourt, Edward St Aubyn and Hanya Yanagihara, it is a heartbreaking novel by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFiction: general and literary, Family and health, Narrative theme: Coming of age\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDouglas Stuart\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e448 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eH: 197mm W: 130mm Spine: 29mm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeight: 325 grams\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PICADOR","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42539311693974,"sku":"9781529019292","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0587\/4978\/0118\/products\/jacket--30_1ad83f0c-ecd8-4534-a98c-104e3b91ffe3.jpg?v=1680420063","url":"https:\/\/www.tawabooksandpost.co.nz\/products\/shuggiebain","provider":"Tawa Books \u0026 Post","version":"1.0","type":"link"}