Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 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...
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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
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