Shuggie Bain Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Douglas Stuart
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
757

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart Book Summary

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A stunning debut novel by a masterful writer telling the heartwrenching story of a young boy and his alcoholic mother, whose love is only matched by her pride.

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. Thatcher’s policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city’s notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings.

Shuggie’s mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie’s guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. She dreams of a house with its own front door while she flicks through the pages of the Freemans catalogue, ordering a little happiness on credit, anything to brighten up her grey life. Married to a philandering taxi-driver husband, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good—her beehive, make-up, and pearly-white false teeth offer a glamorous image of a Glaswegian Elizabeth Taylor. But under the surface, Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away the lion’s share of each week’s benefits—all the family has to live on—on cans of extra-strong lager hidden in handbags and poured into tea mugs. Agnes’s older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to care for her as she swings between alcoholic binges and sobriety. 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. Agnes is supportive of her son, but her addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her—even her beloved Shuggie.

A heartbreaking story of addiction, sexuality, and love, Shuggie Bain is an epic portrayal of a working-class family that is rarely seen in fiction. Recalling the work of Édouard Louis, Alan Hollinghurst, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, it is a blistering debut by a brilliant novelist who has a powerful and important story to tell.

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Book Name Shuggie Bain
Genre Fiction & Literature
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Language English
E-Book Size 1.76 MB

Shuggie Bain (Douglas Stuart) Book Reviews 2024

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No idea what the brouhaha is about. Depressing. Hopeless. Profoundly forgettable. I should know better than to trust what the masses say about a book; but I obviously haven’t learned. So cut through all of the noise about this book and save yourself the time and frustration of trying to figure out what the heck everyone is going on about. You’ll thank me if you do and join me in wondering what the heck if you don’t.

Writing. Such great writing. Very vividly written.

Very tough. Tough depressing realistic book. If you’re from an alcoholic family you could tell a similar story- I know I can. The writing is unique but this was too familiar to me and I had to push through it.

Did not enjoy. This book felt like torture to get through. It was sooo long and boring.

Shuggie Bain. Profoundly moving book and very hard to put down. I read it using iBooks and was glad for the ability to reach over in the middle of the night to check in on poor Shuggie. Closing the last page today, I feel like I have lived another life. My world is bigger and I am a more empathic person today than I was 2 weeks ago.

Amazing, but sad, read!!. Donald Stuart is a gifted writer,

Shuggie Bain. Wow - this was such a sad story to read, but a familiar one to too many families struggling with addiction and those dysfunctional behaviors that characterize it and the resulting misery, poverty, hunger, helplessness, and hopelessness that follow. In the end, we are only responsible for ourselves, and should never allow shame, fear, or guilt to take away our faith or happiness. And as Eleanor Roosevelt said, “no one can make you feel inferior” ( or shame, guilt, etc per me) “without your consent.” If this book hits home, AA, Al Anon, rehabilitation, and therapy are just phone calls or internet searches away. Based on personal experience, all help immensely! Congratulations to this author for expressing the severe pain and extreme sadness many of us have felt but could not put into words. Heartbreaking but there is hope.

So sad. This book was heartbreaking.

One of the best. I was drawn in with the first paragraph. A dark novel that is wonderfully written.

Shuggie Bain. This is a love story of one little boy for his broken mother. Shuggie is just a child, trying valiantly to protect his mother from the alcohol that is destroying their lives. At the same time he struggles with the homosexuality that has inhabited him at an early age. Shuggie Bain is a book for anyone who has a heart.

Sadness I couldn’t put down. A story of the results of national greed, Thatcher polices in the United Kingdom bring the demise of jobs and the hopelessness to the nation. The US is a decade behind but the stories are the same. Families destroyed by drink, children harmed by parental loss. Snuggie is the tender caretaker of his mother, that story is what kept me going.

Shuggie. Won’t forget Shuggie and Agnes. Vivid storytelling and immersive language. A book that will give you pause and force you to reflect on life’s fortunes and misfortunes.

Great read. Put me in mind of Faulkner. Would love to see this produced as a play.

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