Book review: The hope and tragedy of poverty: Review of Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Boyle, C
Date: 21 July 2021
Article
Journal
The Psychologist
Publisher
British Psychological Society
Abstract
Douglas Stuart’s 2020 Booker Prize winning novel Shuggie Bain is a love story as much as it is a story about hope. Stuart tells the fairly tragic story of a childhood in absolute poverty in and around 1980s Glasgow. It is a very grim portrayal of the high rises, the misery, the alcoholism. Poverty makes a home in many towns and cities ...
Douglas Stuart’s 2020 Booker Prize winning novel Shuggie Bain is a love story as much as it is a story about hope. Stuart tells the fairly tragic story of a childhood in absolute poverty in and around 1980s Glasgow. It is a very grim portrayal of the high rises, the misery, the alcoholism. Poverty makes a home in many towns and cities where opportunity or effective supports are lacking. It could be any UK city, but it just so happened that this story of a growing wee boy was set in my home city.
School of Education
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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