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Item Details
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STUART
A LIFE BACKWARDS |
| By: |
Alexander Masters |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£10.99 |
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£8.02 |
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£2.97 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0007200374 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780007200375 |
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Currently 14 available |
| Publisher: |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 2006 |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
`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.' |
| Synopsis: |
`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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Fourth Estate Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Hawthornden Prize 2006
Winner of Guardian First Book Award 2005
Short-listed for British Book Awards: Biography of the Year 2006
Short-listed for Whitbread Book Awards: Biography Category 2005
Short-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2005 |
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