It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decima...(展开全部)

It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decima...(展开全部)

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 ...(展开全部)

道格拉斯·斯图尔特 Douglas Stuart 苏格兰作家、服装设计师。 1976年生于英国格拉斯哥市一个一贫如洗的工人家庭，十六岁时，母亲因饮酒过量而遽然离世。而后，他独自一人搬入寄宿公寓，完成高中学业并进入大学主修纺织设计。他曾作为服装设计师服务于多家品牌，目前专职写作。 《舒吉·贝恩》是斯图尔特的处女作，寄托了他对母亲无尽的回忆与爱。这本书他写了十年，曾被拒稿三十二次，出版后即斩获布克奖。

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 ...(展开全部)

道格拉斯·斯图尔特 Douglas Stuart 苏格兰作家、服装设计师。 1976年生于英国格拉斯哥市一个一贫如洗的工人家庭，十六岁时，母亲因饮酒过量而遽然离世。而后，他独自一人搬入寄宿公寓，完成高中学业并进入大学主修纺织设计。他曾作为服装设计师服务于多家品牌，目前专职写作。 《舒吉·贝恩》是斯图尔特的处女作，寄托了他对母亲无尽的回忆与爱。这本书他写了十年，曾被拒稿三十二次，出版后即斩获布克奖。