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Let’s cut to the chase. The winner of the Booker Prize for 2020 has been officially announced, and now we should all congratulate Douglas Stuart on his victory. His novel, Shuggie Bath, tells a story, based on his own life, about a troubled childhood that he spent in Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1980s under Thatcherism. A story about addiction and violence, written to listen to this year’s judges, a combination of humor, nuance and detail, who believe that people will talk about this novel for “generations.”
Stuart was shortlisted along with five other writers: Diane Cook, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Avni Doshi, Maaza Mengiste and Brandon Taylor for The new desert, This pitiful body, burnt sugar, The King of ShadowsY Real life, respectively. “Due to an accident of time, [Shuggie Bain] it was launched just before the start of the pandemic; it might just be the best reviewed book I’ve ever heard of in 2020, having had other things in mind, ”Matt Schneier wrote in a Stuart profile earlier this fall. If this applies to you, happy reading.
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