Stuart: A Life Backwards (SCARCE FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, SECOND PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ALEXANDER MASTERS)

Masters, Alexander

ISBN 10: 0007200374 / ISBN 13: 9780007200375

Published by Harper Perennial, London, 2006

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NrF. First edition, second printing. Paperback. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ALEXANDER MASTERS, without dedication or inscription on title-page. Illustrated with line-drawings and photographs.(viii),296+16pp. The biography of Stuart Shorter (1968-2002), thief, hostage-taker, psycho and street raconteur. He suffered from facioscapulohumeral muscular dysterophy, and borderline personality disorder. As a child he was sexually abused by his brother and a babysitter. He was a career criminal, disabled from birth, and became mentally unstable. There is a small oblong sticker on the front of the book which states 'Signed Copy'; else a near fine copy of a SCARCE first paperback edition SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. First Paperback Edition, Second Printing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stuart: A Life Backwards (SCARCE FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, SECOND PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ALEXANDER MASTERS)
• Publisher: Harper Perennial, London
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007200374
• ISBN 13: 9780007200375
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author, Alexander Masters
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography and Autobiography

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.