Stuart: A Life Backwards

Paperback. Pub Date :2006-02-01 Pages: 304 Language: English Publisher:. HarperCollins UK Stuart does not like the manuscript Hes 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 -. Stuarts 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.

Alexander Masters was born in New York in 1965 and studied physics and mathematics in London and Cambridge. For the last five years he has worked in hostels for the homeless and run a street newspaper. He has also been an agony aunt, a travel writer, an illustrator, and a bedspread salesman.
From the Hardcover edition.