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Original Title:	Stuart: A Life Backwards
ISBN:	0385340001 (ISBN13: 9780385340007)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Guardian First Book Award (2005), James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Biography (2005), Hawthornden Prize (2006), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography (2006), Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee (2005)

Stuart: A Life Backwards

Alexander Masters

Hardcover | Pages: 300 pages

Rating: 3.97 | 3937 Users | 426 Reviews

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Title	:	Stuart: A Life Backwards
Author	:	Alexander Masters
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 300 pages
Published	:	May 30th 2006 by Delacorte Press (first published 2005)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Biography

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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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Having spent most of my life working in the human services field, this book really gave me a lot to think about. Then again, it would have done that no matter what. For years I tried so hard not to let myself become jaded or cynical about the clients I worked with, realizing that the behavior I witnessed and the personal details I knew about probably only scratched the surfaces of the sum total of their lives' experiences (full admission: ultimately, I failed). This book delves deep beneath

Written like no other book I have read, backwards. Insightful, but also heartbreaking. Not a page turner but a must read

A very moving accurate and unromanticised view of the issue of homelessness, addiction and mental illness, Masters achieves something quite rare in confronting the inherent tragedy of these issues without glossing over the real life choices that led to Stuart's dilemma. There is seemingly a whole industry spawned from tragic life stories and those that have overcome great difficulties to simply have a normal existence but what Masters achieves through his telling of Stuart's story is highlight

I don't read a lot of biographies and I picked this book up on a whim a few days ago when I was filling in time browsing in the bookshop because I was early for my hairdresser appointment. I bought the book because of the opening page, which I read in the shop. Hair done, magazines read, holiday's discussed (not really), I went home and ignored my teetering 'to read' pile and got stuck into 'Stuart' because of page 6. Basically, if you like pages 1 to 6 of this book then you'll like the rest. I

Excuse me while I go pick up the broken pieces of my shattered heart from the floor.

I will admit, I saw the film first. Benedict Cumberbatch. Nuff said. But I was so captivated by the story of Stuart Shorter and his subsequent portrayal by Tom Hardy (he was ace!), that I had to read the book.This is a wonderful book. Alexander Masters captures the essence of Stuart in a way that is compelling and heartbreaking all at the same time. It is the story of a young man so embroiled in pain and tragedy, yet has such a profound outlook on life. I ached for Stuart, Alexander, and Stuarts

This is an enlightening and powerful book. The biography of a homeless man told backwards from adulthood back to his childhood, hoping to pinpoint what caused his troubling life. In addition to helping me understand why took him to such a rough place, it also helped me understand a great deal about the systems in place to help homeless and alcoholics and addicts. Excellent read.