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W e first meet Shuggie Bain as a 16-year-old in 1992 living alone in a dirty bedsit on the Southside of Glasgow and working on a supermarket deli counter where his boss overlooks. Perhaps its nitpicking to extol the virtues of a loser yet Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart and The Promise Damon Galgut were standout winners in the past two years and it is.

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Stuarts semi-autobiographical debut more than a decade in the writing was rejected by over.

. Early responses from editors. Shuggie Bain was longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and was a finalist for the. Douglas Stuart won the 2020 Booker Prize.

The autobiographical novel about the lonely gay son of an alcoholic mother in 1980s Scotland was one of four debut books in this years shortlist. It follows the life of Shuggie an impoverished boy struggling to look after his single mother Agnes an. Shuggie Bain is an autobiographical novel set in Glasgow in the 1980s.

Its a semi-autobiographical tale of a young boy growing up in Pithead in. Douglas Stuarts autobiographical-but-not-autobiographical Shuggie Bain 2020 won the Booker Prize and was long-listed and short-listed for various others including the National Book. In the autobiographical novel set in Glasgow in the 1980s Shuggie Bain follows the life of Shuggie an impoverished boy struggling to look after his single mother Agnes an.

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Scottish-American writer Douglas Stuart has won Britains prestigious Booker Prize for the autobiographical novel Shuggie Bain. It follows the life of Shuggie an impoverished boy struggling to look after his single mother Agnes an. Shuggie Bain has truly been the Cinderella story of the book world this year.

There is a passage in this years Booker Prize winning novel Shuggie Bain that really hits home. It is a painful autobiographical novel that takes us breathless in the early 1980s in a working-class that is.

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