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Stuart: A Life Backwards

by Alexander Masters
No customer reviews yet ISBN 9780385340885 Random House Publishing Group
Published
May 2007
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English
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8.3 × 5.6 × 0.9 in
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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 and misdemeanors, prison and homelessness, suicide attempts, violence, drugs, juvenile halls and special schools-to expose the smiling, gregarious thirteen-year-old boy who was Stuart before his long, sprawling, dangerous fall.

Shocking, inspiring, and hilarious by turns, Stuart: A Life Backwards is a writer's quest to give voice to a man who, beneath his forbidding exterior, has a message for us all: that every life-even the most chaotic and disreputable-is a story worthy of being told.

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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
PublishedMay 29, 2007
ISBN-100385340885
ISBN-139780385340885
Pages320
LanguageEnglish
Dimensions8.3 × 5.6 × 0.9 in
Weight1 lb

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