Gay thor Douglas Stuart has won the Booker Prize for his tobgraphil but novel Shuggie Ba, tellg the story of a queer teenager.
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- GAY THOR WS THE BOOKER PRIZE FOR ’EMOTIVE’ BUT NOVEL ABOUT GROWG UP QUEER 1980S GLASGOW
- GREAT ST! SHUGGIE BA IS AN EPIC GAY G-OF-AGE STORY
GAY THOR WS THE BOOKER PRIZE FOR ’EMOTIVE’ BUT NOVEL ABOUT GROWG UP QUEER 1980S GLASGOW
The tobgraphil novel, about the lonely gay son of an alholic mother 1980s Stland, was one of four but books this year’s shortlist. * is shuggie bain a gay novel *
Nila Sturgeon, the first mister of Stland, tweeted a photo of the book, and ngratulated Stuart on his Booker Sttish Amerin actor and wrer Alan Cummg, who beme iendly wh Stuart after readg “Shuggie Ba, ” said he was stck by how Stuart drew on the Sttish lerary non but expand by wrg om the pot of view of a gay boy and his wayward mother. “There was no way to intify as gay, bee I was too young, but I was different. Many told Stuart would be too hard to get Amerins terted a novel about a gay Sttish boy and his alholic Stuart met wh Peter Blackstock, a senr edor at Grove Atlantic, who was termed to publish “Shuggie Ba.
GREAT ST! SHUGGIE BA IS AN EPIC GAY G-OF-AGE STORY
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