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Carregando... Young Mungo (2022)de Douglas Stuart
   Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Grim stuff. (  ) adrianburke | Sep 7, 2023 |  Loved this although for me it felt like a continuation of Shuggie, as he reached his teen years. Although the circumstances weren't quite the same they were similar enough. I do suspect therefore that there is a very personal element to this story. (  )1  HelenBaker | Aug 7, 2023 | I found this book compelling, but only because, out of a desire not to leave poor Mungo in whatever miserable situation I last found him in, I had to keep reading. I don't really know what this book is about. Yes, a bunch of horrible shit happens, but what does it all mean? Of course Douglas Stuart writes beautifully, his characterisation is good (although not quite as sharp as Shuggie Bain) and he conjures up a vivid setting in 90s Glasgow, but it's at the next level down that this novel left me cold. What are the themes, the meaning and the hope that justify all this misery and violence? Of course you could argue that maybe it's a novel about hopelessness, misery and violence, but that interpretation doesn't fit with the tone of the novel. There is no attempt to explore the emotional implications of hopelessness, misery and violence, which could elevate this story to the heights of Shuggie Bain. (  ) robfwalter | Jul 31, 2023 | A sus quince años, Mungo, un adolescente con una sensibilidad diferente al resto de los chicos del vecindario, vive en un barrio obrero del Glasgow de la era post-Thatcher, en el seno de una familia protestante: sin padre, con una madre alcohólica y un hermano que representa todo lo que él odia. En un ambiente masculinizado, rodeado de paro y peleas callejeras, solo cuenta con el apoyo y el cuidado de su hermana, Jodie. Tras un altercado familiar, su madre decide enviar a Mungo de pesca con dos desconocidos de Alcohólicos Anónimos para que hagan de él un hombre de provecho. De camino a un lago del oeste de Escocia con esos extraños cuyas bromas de borrachos esconden un pasado turbio, Mungo solo piensa en regresar al lado de su amigo James, el único lugar donde ha descubierto que puede ser él mismo. Douglas Stuart nos acerca, con una prosa lírica y vívida, al peligroso primer amor entre dos adolescentes en esta lúcida y conmovedorahistoria sobre el sentido de la masculinidad y del deber para con la familia, las violencias a las que se enfrentan las identidades queer y los riesgos de querer demasiado a alguien. bibliotecayamaguchi | Jul 12, 2023 | A young Scottish man discovers his sexuality amidst a broken family with an alcoholic, mostly absent mother and a community that is virulently homophobic. Beautifully written but sometimes harrowing account of his coming of age. ( ) dugmel | Jun 28, 2023 |
 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. PrêmiosDistinctionsNotable Lists
"The story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all odds Mungo and James 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. But the threat of discovery is constant and the punishment unspeakable. And when several months later Mungo's mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in Western Scotland, together 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 push and pull of family, the violence faced by many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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