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A Life Backwards
Delacorte
June 2006
320 pages
ISBN: 0385340001
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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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