Delacorte, 20 (300pp) ISBN 978-0-7 The British antihero of this moving biography started with teenage glue-sniffing, petty thievery.

It won Masters critical praise and a television movie. Stuart: A Life Backwards Alexander Masters. ISBN: 9780007200375 SKU: 1450393 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book. 'Stuart: A Life Backwards' is a remarkable account of a free fall into the state that British social workers label 'chaotic' homelessness. He’s after a bestseller, like what Tom Clancy writes. This 2006 HarperPerennial Paperback is in good condition. Stuart A Life Backwards Alexander Masters, Click to preview ‘Stuart does not like the manuscript. Funny, despairing, brilliantly written and full of surprises: this is the most original and moving biography of recent years. A shocking realization by all things - beetles, dormice, the spiders spinning their webs in the moonlight, even the hot metal of the tracks and the. For a moment, I believe, there was a stillness.

With humour, compassion (and exasperation) Masters slowly works back through post-office heists, prison riots and the exact day Stuart discovered violence, to unfold the reasons why he changed from a happy-go-lucky little boy into a polydrug-addicted-alcoholic Jekyll and Hyde personality, with a fondness for what he called 'little strips of silver' (knives to you and me). I don't know, Alexander, sometimes it gets so bad you can't think of nothing better to do than make it worse. Interwoven into this is Stuart's confession: the story of his life, told backwards. They campaigned together for the release of Ruth Wyner and John Brock: homeless shelter proprietors who were incarcerated when drug-dealing had been unknowingly carried out on their premises. it begins with Masters meeting a drunken Stuart lying on a sidewalk in. In the late 1990s, the author Alexander Masters met a homeless man, Stuart Shorter, on the streets of Cambridge.

Stuart, A Life Backwards, is the story of a remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator ('a middle class scum ponce, if you want to be honest about it, Alexander) and a chaotic, knife-wielding beggar whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison. In this extraordinary book, Alexander Masters has created a moving portrait of a. In this remarkable book, a masterful act of biographical restoration, Alexander Masters retraces Stuarts troubled journey.

Stuart by alexander masters