Douglas Stuart’s harsh visions
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One of the more surprising moments in the socially distanced Booker Prize ceremony of 2020 came when that year’s winner, Douglas Stuart (who was taking the award for Shuggie Bain on a video call from his sofa in New York), spoke of the influence of the only other Scot to win the prize, James Kelman. While both novelists portray Glasgow, their birthplace, Kelman is a Beckettian writer of interiority and consciousness; Stuart’s page-turning melodrama owes more to the Victorian tragedies of Thomas
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