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Booker winner Douglas Stuart reveals flashes of tenderness in his violent working-class men
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Douglas Stuart's new novel John of John explores themes of working-class masculinity and family dynamics in a fictional Scottish setting, continuing the literary territory established by his Booker Prize-winning earlier works.
Booker winner Douglas Stuart reveals flashes of tenderness in his violent working-class men
Douglas Stuart Martyn Pickersgill/Pan Macmillan
Douglas Stuart’s third novel, John of John, returns to the territory that made his Booker prize-winning Shuggie Bain, and Young Mungo, so unforgettable: the intimate violence of masculinity, and the ways love persists inside families whose members cannot speak or emote plainly to one another.
In Stuart’s Falabay, an imagined town on the Isle of Harris in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, the wind batters – and people have learned to endure by saying less
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