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Stuart: A Life Backwards is a biography by Alexander Masters of his friend Stuart Clive Shorter, formerly, at various times, a prisoner and a career criminal. It explores how a young boy, somewhat disabled from birth, became mentally unstable, criminal and violent, living homeless on the streets of Cambridge.
Sep 23, 2007 · Stuart: A Life Backwards: Directed by David Attwood. With Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hardy, Nicola Duffett, Claire-Louise Cordwell. A writer takes a backwards look at the life of his unlikely friend, Stuart, a homeless alcoholic who experienced a traumatic childhood event.
Jan 1, 2005 · Shocking, inspiring, and hilarious by turns, A Life Backwards is a writer’s quest to give voice to a man who, beneath his forbidding exterior, has a message for us that every life–even the most chaotic and disreputable–is a story worthy of being told.
Stuart: a Life Backwards, was a Sunday Times bestseller and the winner of the Guardian First Book Award and Whitbread Book of the Year 2005 in the Biography category. He recently adapted...
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.
- Alexander Masters
Jun 11, 2020 · 'Stuart: A Life Backwards' is the story of an extraordinary friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic, knife-wielding beggar whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison
May 30, 2006 · 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.
