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bagpuss_janet 's review for:
Young Mungo
by Douglas Stuart
I wondered whether Douglas Stuart would be able to write a book as good as Shuggie Bain - for me, he did. Set in the bleak landscape of 1990s Glasgow, Young Mungo is a troubled character and my heart ached for him. I can see why some reviewers didn't get on with it, but I thought it was great. Bleak, but great! The prose in this book is just wonderful. I'll give two examples and leave it there.
"Poor wee Chicky handed the forlorn whippet to Mungo. She folded into his arms easily, nothing but bones and ligaments, and he held her like she was a jumbled pile of kindling."
And
"The man saluted him with his left hand. His wedding ring glistened in the sunlight. It seemed like it was embedded into his finger, like a brace which was slipped around a young sapling and was now stuck. As though the tree had grown up around it."
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"Poor wee Chicky handed the forlorn whippet to Mungo. She folded into his arms easily, nothing but bones and ligaments, and he held her like she was a jumbled pile of kindling."
And
"The man saluted him with his left hand. His wedding ring glistened in the sunlight. It seemed like it was embedded into his finger, like a brace which was slipped around a young sapling and was now stuck. As though the tree had grown up around it."
❤️