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About Douglas Stuart
Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American writer. He is the author of two novels, Young Mungo, and, Shuggie Bain.
His debut novel, Shuggie Bain, won the 2020 Booker Prize. It was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. It won the Book of The Year at the British Book Awards and The Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. It was also a finalist for the Rathbones Folio Prize, The Kirkus Prize, The Orwell Prize, The Pen Hemingway Award, The McKitterick Prize and was a finalist for The Center for Fiction First novel prize.
Young Mungo was a Sunday Times #1 Bestseller. His work has been translated into 39 languages.
His short stories, Found Wanting, and, The Englishman, were published in The New Yorker magazine. His essays on gender, anxiety, and poverty can be found on Lit Hub.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he is a graduate of The Royal College of Art, and since 2000 he has lived and worked in New York City. Prior to being published, he worked for over twenty years as a fashion designer.
https://www.douglasdstuart.com
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Winner of the Booker Prize
Winner of 'Book of the Year' and 'Debut of the Year' at the British Book Awards
A BBC 'Big Jubilee Read'
'An amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' – The judges of the Booker Prize
'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' – Observer
It 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. 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.
Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. For readers of A Little Life and Angela's Ashes, it is a heartbreaking novel by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.
'A heartbreaking novel' – The Times
'Tender and unsentimental . . . The Billy Elliot-ish character of Shuggie . . . leaps off the page.' – Daily Mail
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The number one Sunday Times bestseller
'A touching, tender tale of boy meets boy in the bleak tenements of Glasgow . . . Superb' – The Times ‘Best Summer Reading’
'Love and hope across the religious divide in a fervent, gritty and emotionally engrossing novel' –The Guardian 'Best Reads For Summer'
‘Writing of transcendent beauty’ – The Financial Times ‘Best Summer Books’
The extraordinary, powerful second novel from the Booker prizewinning author of Shuggie Bain, Young Mungo is both a vivid portrayal of working-class life and the deeply moving story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James.
Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught between two of Glasgow’s housing estates where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation. They should be sworn enemies if they’re to be seen as men at all, and yet they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the doocot that James has built for his prize racing pigeons. As they begin to fall in love, they dream of escaping the grey city, and Mungo must work hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his elder brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold.
But the threat of discovery is constant and the punishment unspeakable. When Mungo’s mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in Western Scotland, with two strange men behind whose drunken banter lie murky pasts, he needs to summon all his inner strength and courage to get back to a place of safety, a place where he and James might still have a future.
Imbuing the everyday world of its characters with rich lyricism, Douglas Stuart’s Young Mungo is a gripping and revealing story about the meaning of masculinity, the push and pull of family, the violence faced by so many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much.
Em livro ganhador do Booker Prize, Douglas Stuart narra história sobre autodescoberta e o amor de um filho por sua mãe imperfeita
Glasgow, 1981. A cidade está morrendo. A pobreza, aumentando. A esperança, desaparecendo. Agnes Bain sempre esperou por mais. Ela sonhava com coisas grandiosas: uma casa com entrada particular, uma vida confortável. Quando seu segundo marido, um taxista mulherengo, sai de casa, ela e os três filhos se veem presos em uma cidade mineradora dizimada pela política da então primeira-ministra Margaret Thatcher. Enquanto Agnes se entrega cada vez mais ao álcool em busca de conforto, seus filhos tentam salvá-la. Porém, um a um, vão desistindo porque precisam salvar a si mesmos.
Mesmo com os próprios problemas, o único que não cede é Shuggie. Apesar de suas tentativas de ser um “menino normal”, todos acham que há “algo de errado” com ele. Agnes quer apoiar e proteger o filho, mas a força de seu vício é tamanha que eclipsa todos ao seu redor, inclusive seu amado Shuggie, que acaba sendo vítima de abuso sexual sem ter a menor ideia de que está sofrendo uma violência.
A crueldade da pobreza, os limites do amor, o vazio do orgulho, a violência dos vícios, a dor da perda e da autodescoberta. Tudo isso está em A história de Shuggie Bain, um livro de estreia comovente sobre o amor irrestrito e inexplicável que somente as crianças sentem por seus pais.
Romance de estreia do autor escocês Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain foi o grande vencedor do Man Booker Prize, um dos mais reputados prémios literários internacionais.
Uma história comovente sobre o heroísmo e os limites do amor.
Livro do Ano nos British Book Awards * Finalista do National Book Award
Finalista do Orwell Prize * Finalista do Pen Hemingway Award *
Finalista do Kirkus Prize
1981, Glasgow. A outrora próspera cidade mineira sufoca sob o jugo férreo das políticas de Margaret Thatcher, lançando milhares de famílias para a miséria. A epidemia do álcool e das drogas aproveita para capturar os mais vulneráveis.
Agnes Bain esperava mais da vida. Sonha com uma casa só sua e folheia catálogos de compras a crédito, na vã tentativa de alegrar a existência precária a que fica condenada quando o marido, um taxista mulherengo, a abandona, sem emprego e com três filhos. Os filhos fazem o melhor que podem para cuidar de si e da mãe, mas, um a um, veem-se obrigados a abandonar a casa materna, para tentar pelo menos salvar-se.
Fica Shuggie, o mais novo, que adora a mãe e não perde a esperança de a salvar. Mas, aos oito anos, o rapaz tem a sua própria luta pessoal para travar: delicado, sensível, comporta-se como um príncipe e destoa da dureza da escola e das ruas devassadas pela pobreza. Anseia apenas ser normal e encaixar, mas é o último a perceber que carrega um segredo e nunca poderá ser igual aos outros.
Os elogios da crítica:
«É um livro desafiante, íntimo, envolvente, corajoso. Acredito que todos os que o lerem nunca mais se sentirão da mesma forma.»
Margaret Busby, presidente do Júri do Booker Prize
«Deixa-nos destroçados e a pensar: a vida pode ser curta, mas demora uma eternidade.»
Leah Hager Cohen, The New York Times
«Um romance de estreia que é uma obra-prima.»
Bethanne Patrick, The Washington Post
«Um romance que disseca o coração humano… com cenas realistas de amor, perda, sobrevivência e tristeza.»
Scott Simon, NPR
«Douglas Stuart escreveu um primeiro romance de uma beleza rara e duradoura.»
Alex Preston, The Guardian
«Shuggie Bain é um romance que quer chegar ao coração e consegue. Uma excelente estreia.»
John Self, The Times
«O talento de Stuart é tal, que a sua história - dolorosa, por vezes lancinante - consegue, muitas vezes, ser bela.»
Barbara Lane, San Francisco Chronicle
«A qualidade evocativa do livro nasce da capacidade do autor para criar um lugar, um tempo e a textura da emoção. Este é um livro duro, triste,mas brilhantemente escrito, que compensa o sofrimento que a sua leitura implica.»
Katherine A. Powers, Newsday
«Um clássico instantâneo. Faz pensar em D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce… Um feito literário.
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