The title character, Mungo Hamilton, is named after the city’s patron saint. A tale of star-crossed love between two adolescent boys, a Protestant and a Catholic, Young Mungo is as affecting, original, and brilliantly written a novel as any we’ll see in 2022. Douglas Stuart’s second novel, Young Mungo-set in 1991, amid Glasgow’s drab public-housing sprawls, known as schemes-is a blazing marvel of storytelling, as strong and possibly stronger than his Booker Prize-winning debut, Shuggie Bain. She wasn’t famous as the “Iron Lady” for nothing.įurther north, in strapped Scotland, conditions were even more dire. In the background loomed the invisible figure of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, whose draconian policies had slashed social safety nets across her nation, cruelties she seemed to relish. With its punchy script and superb performances, the film probed masculinity with an honesty and freshness missing from our cultural conversations, ranging from economic anxiety to body image to suicide to same-sex desire. In 1997, The Full Monty, a British indie film, was a surprise critical and commercial smash, depicting the outer foibles and inner lives of six unemployed men in industrial Sheffield, England, a mix of straight and gay, who form a Chippendale’s-style burlesque for income.
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