STUART A BACKWARDS BIOGRAPHY
STUART A BACKWARDS BIOGRAPHY
Alexander Masters
‘Stuart does not like the manuscript. He’s after a bestseller, “like what Tom Clancy writes”. “But you are not an assassin trying to frazzle the president with anthrax bombs,” I point out. You are an ex-homeless, ex-junkie psychopath, I do not add.’
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‘Stuart does not like the manuscript. He’s after a bestseller, “like what Tom Clancy writes”. “But you are not an assassin trying to frazzle the president with anthrax bombs,” I point out. You are an ex-homeless, ex-junkie psychopath, I do not add.’
This is the story of a remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer (‘a middle-class scum ponce, if you want to be honest about it, Alexander’), and Stuart Shorter, a homeless, knife-wielding thief. Told backwards – Stuart’s idea – it starts with a deeply troubled thirty-two-year-old and ends with a ‘happy-go-lucky little boy’ of twelve. This brilliant biography, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, presents a humbling portrait of homeless life, and is as extraordinary and unexpected as the man it describes.
Product Description
Title - STUART A BACKWARDS BIOGRAPHY
Edition -
Author - Alexander Masters
ISBN 13 - 9780007200375
Imprint - Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher - HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published - 01/02/2006
Prize -
No. of pages -
Binding Type - Paperback
Dimensions - 129 x 198 x 20mm
Weight - 240 g
Languages - English