Ebook {Epub PDF} Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters

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 way/5().  · 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 bltadwin.ru: Michiko Kakutani.  · Stuart: A Life Backwards. Stuart Shorter did a lot of living, most of it not very pleasant, before his tragic death-by-train at the age of thirty-three. A victim of muscular dystrophy, Stuart was ostracized and ridiculed by children his age because of the way he walked. He suffered at the hands of sexual predators, both in his own home, and in the Cambridge, England, facility he lived in after being Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.

In this extraordinary book, Alexander Masters has created a moving portrait of a troubled man, an unlikely friendship, and a desperate world few ever see. A gripping who-done-it journey back in time, it begins with Masters meeting a drunken Stuart lying on a sidewalk in Cambridge, England, and leads through layers of hell back through crimes. "Stuart: A Life Backwards" is a remarkable account of a free fall into the state that British social workers label "chaotic" homelessness. It won Masters critical praise and a television movie. Publisher Description. In this extraordinary book, Alexander Masters has created a moving portrait of a troubled man, an unlikely friendship, and a desperate world few ever see. A gripping who-done-it journey back in time, it begins with Masters meeting a drunken Stuart lying on a sidewalk in Cambridge, England, and leads through layers of hell.

"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. 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 square of cardboard, a. Stuart: A Life Backwards. Stuart Shorter did a lot of living, most of it not very pleasant, before his tragic death-by-train at the age of thirty-three. A victim of muscular dystrophy, Stuart was ostracized and ridiculed by children his age because of the way he walked. He suffered at the hands of sexual predators, both in his own home, and in the Cambridge, England, facility he lived in after being placed “in care.”.