Young Mungo: The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller
Douglas Stuart - Young Mungo: The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller
Art Nr.: 1529068789
ISBN 13: 9781529068788
B-Nr: INF1001381585
Release Year: 2023
Published by: Picador
Edition: paperback
Cover: paperback
Cover Format: 193x129x29
Pages: 400
Weight: 288 g
Language: Englisch
Author: Douglas Stuart
Warengruppe: Taschenbuch/Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur/Hauptwerk vor 1945
Beschreibung:
The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller
A Dua Lipa's Service95 Bookclub selection
'Another beautiful and moving book, a gay Romeo and Juliet set in the brutal world of Glasgow's housing estates' - The Observer
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain, a vivid portrayal of working-class life in 80s Glasgow, and the deeply moving story of the dangerous first love of two young men.
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 as they begin to fall in love, they dream of escape, and Mungo must work hard to hide his true self from all those around him.
But the threat of discovery is constant. When Mungo's mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in western Scotland with two strange men, he must summon all his inner strength and courage to reach a place of safety, a place where he and James might still have a future.
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.
Young Mungo was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 10/4/22
Autoreninformationen:
Douglas Stuart was born and raised in Glasgow. After graduating from the Royal College of Art, he moved to New York, where he began a career in fashion design. <i>Shuggie Bain</i>, his first novel, won the Booker Prize and both 'Debut of the Year' and 'Book of The Year' at the British Book Awards. It was also shortlisted for the US National Book Award for Fiction, among many other awards. His short stories have appeared in the <i>New Yorker</i> and his essay on gender, anxiety and class was published by Lit Hub. He divides his time between New York and Glasgow. <i>Young Mungo </i>is his second novel.