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Shuggie Bain: A Novel por Douglas Stuart
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Shuggie Bain: A Novel (2020 original; edición 2020)

por Douglas Stuart (Autor)

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Fiction. Literature. This 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 goodâ??her beehive, make-up, and pearly-white false teeth offer a glamourous 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 benefitsâ??all the family has to live onâ??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. Meanwhile, Shuggie is 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 herâ??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… (más)
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Título:Shuggie Bain: A Novel
Autores:Douglas Stuart (Autor)
Información:Grove Press (2020), 448 pages
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Shuggie Bain por Douglas Stuart (2020)

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    La taberna por Émile Zola (raudakind)
    raudakind: Good glimpses into the horrors of poverty in different historical eras, enlivened by vivid and clever descriptions of the manners and surroundings of the characters.
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    Trespasses por Louise Kennedy (shaunie)
    shaunie: Both feature alcoholic mothers and have similarly grim subject matter, but somehow manage to transcend that into something quite beautiful.
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A principios de los ochenta, Glasgow agoniza: la que fuera una próspera ciudad minera se ve ahora azotada por las políticas de Thatcher, que empujan a las familias al desempleo y el desaliento. Agnes Bain es una mujer bellísima y sin suerte que siempre soñó con alcanzar una vida mejor: una casa bonita y una felicidad que no tuviera que pagar a plazos. Cuando su marido, un taxista expansivo y mujeriego, la abandona por otra, Agnes se ve sola a cargo de tres hijos en un barrio sumido en la miseria y la decepción, hundiéndose más y más en el pozo sin fondo de la bebida. Sus hijos harán lo posible por salvarla, pero, obligados ellos mismos a salir adelante, acabarán por rendirse uno a uno. Todos menos Shuggie, el hijo menor, el único que se niega a ceder, el que con su amor incondicional mantiene a flote a Agnes.

A Shuggie, un niño sensible, amanerado y un tanto redicho, le mortifica que los hijos de los mineros se rían de él y que los adultos lo tachen de «distinto», pero, testarudo como es, también está convencido de que si se esfuerza al máximo conseguirá ser tan «normal» como los demás chicos y logrará ayudar a su madre a escapar de este lugar sin esperanza.

Ganadora del prestigioso Premio Booker, Historia de Shuggie Bain es una novela tierna y devastadora sobre la pobreza y los límites del amor, una narración que, con su compasiva mirada a la dolorosa lucha de una mujer contra la adicción, la frustración y la soledad, se erige en un emocionante homenaje a la fe inquebrantable de un hijo decidido a salvar a su madre cueste lo que cueste.
  bibliotecayamaguchi | Oct 22, 2021 |
Shuggie Bain is set in this world of men run aground after the closure of mines, women sunk under the weight of drink, families living week to week on public assistance and disability benefits. It speaks in a Scottish English whose rhythms, even whose vocabulary, can be alien for American readers: misty with smirr and dusty with stour, its bruisers glaikit in their foolishness, gallus in their pride.... At its center is Agnes Bain, an imperious former beauty in a now-ratty mink whose disintegration Stuart observes lovingly but unsparingly. Shuggie is her youngest, her ward, her protector, and her target. He bobs in her beery wake, no more able to save her than his baby doll, Daphne.... Stuart’s project as a writer is in part about clearing space for tenderness among men, space for love.
añadido por Lemeritus | editarVulture, Matthew Schneier (Nov 10, 2020)
 
It is in many ways a harsh, bleak novel, for that decade was a harsh and bleak time in Glasgow, when the shipyards, engineering works and the coalfields on the city’s fringe were closing, and so many of the working-class were no longer working but living on benefits.... There is poverty, squalor and degradation here, much foul language and causal, sometimes brutal sex. What redeems the novel and makes it remarkable is that its central theme is love – a caring, responsible love.... The relationship between Agnes and Shuggie is beautifully, tenderly and understandingly done. Stuart doesn’t sentimentalise it and he hides nothing of the horrors of galloping alcoholism, but there is a gallantry about Agnes which commands respect and admiration, however reluctantly.
añadido por Lemeritus | editarThe Scotsman, Allan Massie (Aug 21, 2020)
 
It is, then, a testament to Douglas Stuart’s talent that all this literary history—along with the tough portraits of Glaswegian working-class life from William McIlvanney, James Kelman, Alasdair Gray, and Agnes Owens—can be felt in Shuggie Bain without either overshadowing or unbalancing the novel ... Stuart’s [has a] Grassic Gibbon–like ability to combine love and horror, and to give equal weight to both. Not only is Shuggie Bain dedicated to his mother, but in the acknowledgments he writes that 'I owe everything to the memories of my mother and her struggle'; he’s clearly determined to give all the contradictory aspects of that struggle their full due ... Stuart’s capacity for allowing wild contradictions to convincingly coexist is also on display in the individual vignettes that comprise the novel, blending the tragic with the funny, the unsparing with the tender, the compassionate with the excruciating ... Otherwise, the author is too generous—and, it would seem, too fond of his mother—for the central focus to lie anywhere but in the fierce, warm-hearted portrait of Agnes in all her maddening glory. As a result, this overwhelmingly vivid novel is not just an accomplished debut. It also feels like a moving act of filial reverence.
añadido por Lemeritus | editarThe New York Review, James Walton (Aug 20, 2020)
 
... his novel is resolutely, wonderfully Scottish at heart ... such a delight. Rarely does a debut novel establish its world with such sure-footedness, and Stuart’s prose is lithe, lyrical and full of revelatory descriptive insights. This is a memorable book about family, violence and sexuality ... Agnes is drawn with extraordinary sympathy: she simply leaps from the page as she juggles motherhood, a violent and philandering husband and her own demons, drink foremost among them. She is troubled, lovable, vulnerable and resilient ... This is a deeply political novel, one about the impact of Thatcherism on Glaswegian society ... It is brilliant on the shame of poverty and the small, necessary dignities that keep people going. It is heartbreakingly good on childhood and Shuggie’s growing sense of his otherness, of not being the same as the other boys on the estate ... Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.
añadido por Lemeritus | editarThe Guardian (UK), Alex Preston (Aug 9, 2020)
 
With his exquisitely detailed debut novel, Douglas Stuart has given Glasgow something of what James Joyce gave to Dublin. Every city needs a book like Shuggie Bain, one where the powers of description are so strong you can almost smell the chip-fat and pub-smoke steaming from its pages, and hear the particular, localized slang ringing in your ears.... Agnes...is the real heroine of this story, so evocative and striking that she may be one of those characters you never forget. Stuart writes about Shuggie, a lonely, loving boy struggling with his sexuality, with skill. But the depiction pales in comparison to the sheer, knock-out force of what he managed to create with Agnes ... Shuggie Bain is full of people doing and saying awful things to one another all the time, but nobody really seems truly awful. Maybe this is what makes the novel so powerful and sad—it turns over the ugly side of humanity to find the softness and the beauty underneath.
añadido por Lemeritus | editarJacobin, Eliza Gearty (Mar 16, 2020)
 

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Nombre del autorRolTipo de autor¿Obra?Estado
Stuart, Douglasautor principaltodas las edicionesconfirmado
Coulson, JezArtista de Cubiertaautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
King, AngusNarradorautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Pickersgill, MartynAuthor photographautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Vries, Willemijn deNarradorautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Wilson, StuartDiseñador de cubiertaautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado

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Fiction. Literature. This 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 goodâ??her beehive, make-up, and pearly-white false teeth offer a glamourous 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 benefitsâ??all the family has to live onâ??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. Meanwhile, Shuggie is 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 herâ??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

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