Обложка книги Stuart. A Life Backwards, Masters Alexander  
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Издательство: 4th Estate, 2011
Переплёт: Мягкая обложка, 294 страницы
Серия: Matchbook Classics
Категория: Биографии. Мемуары
ISBN: 9780008329723
Формат: 200x131x25 мм, 310 г

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📗 A major new launch for the paperback edition of the most original, capitvating and award-winning memoir of the year.
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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