Shuggie Bain [large print] / Douglas Stuart.
"Young Hugh " Shuggie" Bain is a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Shuggie's mother Agnes is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away the lion's share of each week's benefits on cans of extra-strong lager. Agnes's older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to care for her. Shuggie is meanwhile 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." -- page [4] of cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781432886943
- ISBN: 1432886940
- ISBN: 9781432892524
- ISBN: 1432892525
- Physical Description: 695 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Includes reading group guide.Publisher, dates, and paging may vary.
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- Subject:
- Boys > Scotland > Glasgow > Fiction.
Working class families > Scotland > Glasgow > Fiction.
Mothers and sons > Fiction.
Women alcoholics > Fiction.
Boys. - Genre:
- Large print books.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Fiction.
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- 11 of 14 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 0 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library. (Show)
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- 0 current holds with 14 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | LP FIC STUART (Text) | 36015000406559 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Checked out | 08/24/2026 |
| Eden Library | LP Fic (Text) | 31554010764958 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| Etowah Branch | STU (Text) | 33258009526638 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| Hazel W. Guilford Memorial Library | LP FIC (Text) | 38344101677522 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | STU (Text) | 33258009526653 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| High Point Library | LP FIC Stuart Douglas (Text) | 30519010642190 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Checked out | 08/24/2026 |
| Lexington Public Library | LP STU (Text) | 25908007888345 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| Macon County Public Library | LP STUART (Text) | 39493109329401 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| Moore County Library | LGPT FIC STUART (Text) | 48198000905063 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Checked out | 08/24/2026 |
| Reidsville Library | LP Fic (Text) | 31554010764966 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
