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Book young mungo5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() It turns around the same basic friction: a young man growing up in grinding poverty who, because of talent, temperament and sexuality, is particularly ill-suited to the hard-edged world of the Glasgow schemes. ![]() Stuart has opted for the latter course: Young Mungo is set in the same world and at more-or-less the same time as Shuggie Bain. Either they seek to prove their range with something entirely different, or they capitalise on that early success, giving readers more of what pleased them first time around. ![]() T he writer of a successful first novel – and they don’t come much more successful than Douglas Stuart’s Booker-winning Shuggie Bain– has two choices when it comes to the follow-up. ![]()
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