{"product_id":"stuart-a-life-backwards-1","title":"Alexander Masters: Stuart [2006] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e'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.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Masters, Alexander","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":47804520857939,"sku":"XG80007200375","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/masters-alexander-stuart-a-life-backwards-xg80007200375-54902327214419.jpg?v=1726592170","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/stuart-a-life-backwards-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}