STUART:
Masters, Alexander, 1965-
STUART: A LIFE BACKWARDS / ALEXANDER MASTERS - 4th Estate Matchbook Classics edition 1 - 294 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm - 4th Estate Matchbook Classics . - 4th Estate matchbook classics .
Originally published: 2005
Includes bibliographical references
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. Interwoven into this is Stuart's confession: the story of his life, told backwards. With humour, compassion (and exasperation) Masters slowly works back through post-office heists, prison riots and the exact day Stuart discovered violence, to unfold the reasons why he changed from a happy-go-lucky little boy into a polydrug-addicted-alcoholic Jekyll and Hyde personality, with a fondness for what he called little strips of silver' (knives to you and me). Funny, despairing, brilliantly written and full of surprises: this is the most original and moving biography of recent years.
Winner of the Guardian First Book Award
9780008329723 RM49.90
Shorter, Stuart, 1968-2002.
Homeless persons --Great Britain --Biography
Drug addicts--Great Britain--Biography
Biography
305.5692092
STUART: A LIFE BACKWARDS / ALEXANDER MASTERS - 4th Estate Matchbook Classics edition 1 - 294 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm - 4th Estate Matchbook Classics . - 4th Estate matchbook classics .
Originally published: 2005
Includes bibliographical references
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. Interwoven into this is Stuart's confession: the story of his life, told backwards. With humour, compassion (and exasperation) Masters slowly works back through post-office heists, prison riots and the exact day Stuart discovered violence, to unfold the reasons why he changed from a happy-go-lucky little boy into a polydrug-addicted-alcoholic Jekyll and Hyde personality, with a fondness for what he called little strips of silver' (knives to you and me). Funny, despairing, brilliantly written and full of surprises: this is the most original and moving biography of recent years.
Winner of the Guardian First Book Award
9780008329723 RM49.90
Shorter, Stuart, 1968-2002.
Homeless persons --Great Britain --Biography
Drug addicts--Great Britain--Biography
Biography
305.5692092