Half life hidden achievement10/31/2023 ![]() He’s lovely, Douglas Stuart, fierce and loving and lovely. The book would be just about unbearable were it not for the author’s astonishing capacity for love. The wonder is how crazily, improbably alive it all is. And this is the world of Agnes Bain, his glamorous, calamitous mother, drinking herself ever so slowly to death. This is the world of Shuggie Bain, a little boy growing up in Glasgow in the 1980s. “ The body-especially the body in pain-blazes on the pages of Shuggie Bain. While you’re still in Booker mode, why not take a journey into the recent past with us, and see what the critics wrote about every previous Booker Prize-winning novel of the 21st century? ![]() ![]() We now know that South African writer Damon Galgut has taken home the 2021 Booker Prize for his latest novel, The Promise, so congratulations to him (and to everyone at Europa Editions!).
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