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S'està carregant… Young Mungo (2022 original; edició 2022)de Stuart Douglas (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Brilliant. Absolutely loved it. ( ) Loved it. Brutally honest, at times just brutal. Beautifully written. Strong characters. Manages to be both an epic tale and a story of everyday life in the tenements of Glasgow. Provides a glimmer of hope...but just a glimmer, and that glimmer comes at great cost. A book not for the faint of heart, but one of the best books I've read. Douglas Stuart is becoming one of my favourite authors. I ended up reading this novel and another of a similar bent back to back. (No pun intended.) I wrote a review for that other book, which was simultaneously a tacit review of Young Mungo — sort of a compare and contrast. You can read that review on the corresponding Goodreads review page. Long story short, Young Mungo is top shelf stuff and I barely feel qualified to review what is so obviously a masterpiece. If you want more, check out that other review. Whew. After finishing this one I need a nap, a mug of something warm, and possibly some over the counter medication. This book was fantastic and gripping but also brutal, savage, and almost emotionally abusive. This title should come with a disclaimer, “Do not drive or operate heavy machinery twelve hours after completing this book. Some readers may be unable to exist normally in polite society up to several hours after reading the ending. Consult your healthcare provider if symptoms persist longer than 24 hours.” Some fiction is so affecting and moving it should really be available by prescription only and this is definitely one of those books. I’d recommend it to almost anyone, it’s perhaps the best book I’ve read all year and I can tell already it will stick with me for ages. When you read it you’re fully immersed, you can smell the streets of Glasgow and you feel as if Mungo and his odd, rough family, are real people you’ve known all your life. In its best moments this novel rises to the peaks of what good fiction is capable of and finds a way to push higher still. It’s honest and beautiful, and tragic and everything that makes storytelling one of the oldest human passions. But it’s also emotionally taxing in the extreme, not a bad thing at all but something I’d definitely mention to anyone I push this on, like a warning label. Douglas Stuart is fast becoming one of the most lauded writers of the decade and it’s abundantly apparent why. The man is a savant with his characterization and his prose drips emotion and pathos. He can paint a scene with words like few others can and manages to pull of fantastic stories that feel as massive and weighty as epics but as ordinary as everyday life at the same time. Superb book, beautiful from beginning to end.
For the poor, undereducated, underemployed characters of Douglas Stuart’s novels, late-20th-century Glasgow is a bleak world that is getting bleaker all the time. Each of his two novels thus far focuses on the dynamics of a single family living in a Glasgow devastated by the privatization schemes that collapsed Scottish industry under Margaret Thatcher. The key event is Mungo’s encounter during the winter half-term break with James Jamieson, a slightly older Catholic boy who keeps a dovecote near the grounds of the housing scheme where they live. PremisDistincionsLlistes notables
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LGBTQIA+ (Fiction.)
HTML: A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart's first novel Shuggie Bain, winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, is one of the most successful literary debuts of the century so far. Published or forthcoming in forty territories, it has sold more than one million copies worldwide. Now Stuart returns with Young Mungo, his extraordinary second novel. Both a page-turner and literary tour de force, it is a vivid portrayal of working-class life and a deeply moving and highly suspenseful story of the dangerous first love of two young men. Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars??Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic??and they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Yet against all odds, they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds. As they fall in love, they dream of finding somewhere they belong, while Mungo works hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his big brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold. And when several months later Mungo's mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in Western Scotland with two strange men whose drunken banter belies murky pasts, he will need to summon all his inner strength and courage to try 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 and giving full voice to people rarely acknowledged in the literary world, Young Mungo is a gripping and revealing story about the bounds of masculinity, the divisions of sectarianism, the violence faced by many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone tooNo s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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