- Title:
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Shuggie Bain (MP3)
- Written by:
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Douglas Stuart
- Read by:
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Angus King
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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17 hours 30 minutes
- MP3 size:
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602 MB
- Published:
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February 20 2020
- Available Date:
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February 20 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781529044447
- Genres:
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Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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Format
Price
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Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh 'Shuggie' Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland.
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. 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. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother’s sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no’ right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place.
'You will never forget Shuggie Bain. Scene by scene, this book is a masterpiece.'
Kirkus Reviews, starred