Stuart does not like the manuscript. He's 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 -
Stuart's 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.
Stuart : A Life Backwards - Alexander Masters
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