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Bezig met laden... Mungo (2022)door Douglas Stuart
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Reading Ron Charles' review, https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/04/05/young-mungo-douglas-stuart/, I can add very little. The book is beautifully written and the tension is superb with interesting characters, yet I skimmed a portion of it because it was too bleak to read. And heaven knows I love a bleak book, but this one really troubled me. Young Mungo was a very empathetic character yet what happens to him and how he responded took me to dark places. A camping trip worthy of [b:Deliverance|592657|Deliverance|James Dickey|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1624579180l/592657._SY75_.jpg|1257919]. I think my abbreviated reading was the right decision but still applaud the author's talent. ( ) 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.
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. Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Mirmanda (228) PrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
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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 starsâ??Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholicâ??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 tooGeen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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