TY  - BOOK
AU  - Masters,Alexander
TI  - STUART: A LIFE BACKWARDS 
T2  - 4th Estate Matchbook Classics
SN  - 9780008329723
U1  - 305.5692092 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London : 
PB  - 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 
KW  - Shorter, Stuart,
KW  - Homeless persons
KW  - Biography
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Drug addicts
N1  - Originally published: 2005
; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 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
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