Stuart: A Life Backwards - Softcover

Masters, Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007200374 ISBN 13: 9780007200375

Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers, 2006

Synopsis

'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.

About this title

About the Author

Alexander Masters is an author and homeless worker. He is the author of Stuart: A Life Backwards and The Genius in My Basement. Stuart: a Life Backwards, was a Sunday Times bestseller and the winner of the Guardian First Book Award and Whitbread Book of the Year 2005 in the Biography category. He recently adapted Stuart: a Life Backwards for a BBC film. Alexander Masters lives in London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007200374
• ISBN 13: 9780007200375
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320