· In Stuart: A Life Backwards, published in , Masters set out to explore the life of a wholly unknown man he had met begging on a street in Cambridge. He was sitting on a Author: Michael Holroyd. So STUART: A LIFE BACKWARDS is, roughly, the life of Stuart Shorter from the time he was thirty-four going backwards through his homeless stretches, his prison terms, adolescence, to boyhood. It also is a "life backwards" in the sense of a life that never should have been that www.doorway.ru by: · Mr. Masters says he couldn't explain Stuart's life, just tried to "staple him to the page," and he tells his story without a shred of sentimentality or www.doorway.ru: Michiko Kakutani.
Publisher's Write-Up: 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. Stuart Shorter's brief life was one of turmoil and chaos. In this remarkable book, a masterful act of biographical restoration, Alexander Masters retraces Stuart's troubled journey. Stuart was homeless, with many of the problems this sub-section of English society display: alcoholism, drug-addiction, crime, violence. Stuart: a life backwards. Masters, Alexander. 'Stuart' is the story of an extraordinary friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic, knife-wielding beggar whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison. Paperback, Book. English.
This is the story of Stuart Shorter: thief, hostage-taker, psycho and street raconteur. It is a story told backwards, as he wanted, fro the man he was when Alexander Masters met him to a ‘happy-go-lucky little boy’ of twelve. Brilliant, humane and funny, it is as extraordinary and unexpected as the life it describes. Mr. Masters says he couldn't explain Stuart's life, just tried to "staple him to the page," and he tells his story without a shred of sentimentality or cant. Stuart: A Life Backwards is a biography by Alexander Masters of his friend Stuart Clive Shorter, formerly, at various times, a prisoner and a career criminal. It explores how a young boy, somewhat disabled from birth, became mentally unstable, criminal and violent, living homeless on the streets of Cambridge. As the title suggests, the book starts from Shorter's adult life, and works backwards to trace through his troubled childhood, examining the effects his family, schooling and disability had.
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