Funny, despairing, uplifting, brilliantly-written, it is one of the most original biographies of recent years. This extraordinary book is a glimpse at the underbelly of English society, a world largely hidden from our lives. I feel so strongly about this strange, funny, sad book that I hardly know where to begin. Scattered with glimpses of the author’s friendship with Stuart in the years before his death, Masters gives us Stuart’s life in reverse, tracing his route backwards through the post-office heists and attempts at suicide and the spells inside many of this country’s prisons, on back to a troubled time at school and learning difficulties and a violent childhood that acted like a springboard into the trouble that was to follow him all his life. Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters HarperCollins 12.99, pp295. Stuart was homeless, with many of the problems this sub-section of English society display: alcoholism, drug-addiction, crime, violence. stuarta life backwardsTom hardybennedict cumberbatchYoutube.
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In this remarkable book, a masterful act of biographical restoration, Alexander Masters retraces Stuart’s troubled journey. As funny/cute as this little thing is, as uncomfortably touching the actual movie is. The book has been awarded with Guardian First Book. The main characters of Stuart: A Life Backwards novel are John, Emma. Published in 2005 the book become immediate popular and critical acclaim in non fiction, biography books.
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Stuart Shorter’s brief life was one of turmoil and chaos. Stuart: A Life Backwards PDF book by Alexander Masters Read Online or Free Download in ePUB, PDF, azw3 or MOBI eBooks. I wish I could have presented it to Stuart before he stepped in front of the 11.15 train from London to Kings Lynn.’ ‘So here it is, my attempt at the story of Stuart Shorter, thief, hostage taker, psycho and sociopath street raconteur, my spy on how the British chaotic underclass spend their troubled days at the beginning of this century: a man with an important life.
A unique biography of a homeless man and a complete portrait of the hidden underclass.
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