Douglas Stuart
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Glasgow, années 1980, sous le règne de fer de Margaret Thatcher. Agnes Bain rêvait d'une belle maison, d'un jardin et d'un homme qui l'aime. À la place, son dernier mari la laisse dans un quartier délabré de la ville où règnent le chômage et la pauvreté. Pour fuir l'avenir bouché, les factures qui s'empilent et ses illusions perdues, Agnes va chercher du réconfort dans l'alcool. L'un après l'autre, tous les siens l'abandonnent, pour se sauver eux-mêmes. Un seul s'est juré de rester, coûte que coûte, de toute la force d'âme de ses huit ans : Shuggie, son plus jeune fils. À l'école, on dit qu'il n'est pas « net », trop doux, bref, différent... Agnes le protégerait si l'alcool n'avait pas le pouvoir d'effacer tous ceux qui vous entourent, même un fils adoré. Mais qu'est-ce qui pourrait décourager l'amour de Shuggie ?
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Nés sous deux étoiles différentes, Mungo le protestant et James le catholique vivent dans un monde hyper-violent où les gangs se livrent une bataille territoriale sans merci au nom d'une idée de la réputation ultra-virile à défendre. Pour être considérés comme des hommes, « des vrais », Mungo et James devraient être des ennemis jurés. Pourtant, les deux garçons s'aiment voyant l'un chez l'autre l'espoir d'un ailleurs.
Mungo doit alors travailler dur pour cacher cet amour interdit, en particulier à son frère aîné Hamish, un chef de gang local, prêt à tout pour défendre son honneur.
Lorsque Mo-maw, la mère de Mungo, l'envoie pour une partie de pêche sur le loch avec deux hommes, « des vrais », qui ont promis à Mo-Maw de faire de lui un homme, un vrai, c'est toute sa vie qui va basculer.
Servi par une écriture nerveuse et étincelante, Mungo brosse le portrait d'un jeune homme qui tente de faire entendre sa vérité dans un lieu et une époque qui exigent une stricte conformité aux normes de classe et de genre. -
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ''Prepare your hearts, for Douglas Stuart is back. After the extraordinary success of Shuggie Bain , his second novel, Young Mungo , is another beautiful and moving book, a gay Romeo and Juliet set in the brutal world of Glasgow''s housing estates.'' The Observer The extraordinary, powerful second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain , Young Mungo is both a vivid portrayal of working-class life and the deeply moving story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught between two of Glasgow''s housing estates, where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation. They should be sworn enemies if they''re to be seen as men at all, and yet they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the doocot that James has built for his prize racing pigeons. As they begin to fall in love, they dream of escaping the grey city, and Mungo must work hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his elder brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold. But the threat of discovery is constant and the punishment unspeakable. When Mungo''s mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in western Scotland with two strange men behind whose drunken banter lie murky pasts, he needs to summon all his inner strength and courage to get back to a place of safety, a place where he and James might still have a future. Imbuing the everyday world of its characters with rich lyricism, Douglas Stuart''s Young Mungo is a gripping and revealing story about the meaning of masculinity, the push and pull of family, the violence faced by so many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much.
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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 decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest.Shuggie is different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother's sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no' right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place.br>Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. A counterpart to the privileged Thatcher-era London of Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty, it also recalls the work of Edouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, it is a blistering debut by a brilliant novelist with a powerful and important story to tell.
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Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 ''An amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love'' The judges of the Booker Prize An Observer ''Best Debut Novelist of 2020'' 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 decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. Shuggie is different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother''s sense of snobbish propriety. The miners'' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no'' right . But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place. Douglas Stuart''s Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. A counterpart to the privileged Thatcher-era London of Alan Hollinghurst''s The Line of Beauty , it also recalls the work of edouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, a blistering debut by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.
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