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- 304pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
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'Stuart does not like the manuscript. He's after a bestseller, "like what Tom Clancy writes". "But you are not an assassin trying to frazzle the president with anthrax bombs," I point out. You are an ex-homeless, ex-junkie psychopath, I do not add.' This is the story of a remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer ('a middle-class scum ponce, if you want to be honest about it, Alexander'), and Stuart Shorter, a homeless, knife-wielding thief. Told backwards - Stuart's idea - it starts with a deeply troubled thirty-two-year-old and ends with a 'happy-go-lucky little boy' of twelve. This brilliant biography, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, presents a humbling portrait of homeless life, and is as extraordinary and unexpected as the man it describes.
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Stuart. A life backwards, Alexander Masters
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2006
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- Titolo
- Stuart. A life backwards
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Alexander Masters
- Editore
- Harper
- Pubblicato
- 2006
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 304
- ISBN10
- 0007200374
- ISBN13
- 9780007200375
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Storie vere, Biografie, Narrativa contemporanea, Autobiografie e memorie, Letteratura britannica, Salute mentale, Povertà, Criminalità, Senza fissa dimora
- Valutazione
- 4 su 5
- Descrizione
- 'Stuart does not like the manuscript. He's after a bestseller, "like what Tom Clancy writes". "But you are not an assassin trying to frazzle the president with anthrax bombs," I point out. You are an ex-homeless, ex-junkie psychopath, I do not add.' This is the story of a remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer ('a middle-class scum ponce, if you want to be honest about it, Alexander'), and Stuart Shorter, a homeless, knife-wielding thief. Told backwards - Stuart's idea - it starts with a deeply troubled thirty-two-year-old and ends with a 'happy-go-lucky little boy' of twelve. This brilliant biography, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, presents a humbling portrait of homeless life, and is as extraordinary and unexpected as the man it describes.