Posts tagged shuggiebain

Barbara Kingsolver Delivers Modern Version Of Old Classic

First of all, Pulitzer Prize-winner Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel Demon Copperhead is not about a snake as the title would suggest. It’s a modern interpretation of Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield retold about a drug-addicted teenage…

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Shuggie Bain takes us inside Thatcher-era poverty in suburban Glasgow

Every once in a while we come upon a book that, while not an uplifting subject, touches us deeply. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart was short-listed for The Booker Prize and that prompted me to…

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