Full name: Stuart: A Life Backwards

Author: Alexander Masters Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780385340007 9780385340885 0385340001 0007790171

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. From the Hardcover edition. Similar books: The Genius in my Basement by Alexander Masters The Real James Herriot by Jim Wight Who Was Roald Dahl? by True Kelley That Woman by Anne Sebba Shirley Jackson by Ruth Franklin Pearl S. Buck by Peter Conn The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar Oh, the Places He Went by Maryann N. Weidt Audrey by Alexander Walker Against All Odds by Chuck Norris John Wayne by Scott Eyman Wired by Bob Woodward Who Was Amelia Earhart? by Kate Boehm Jerome Who Was Steve Jobs? by Pam Pollack The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe by Elaine Showalter Audrey Hepburn by Barry Paris There's More to Life Than This by Theresa Caputo The Duck Commander Family by Willie Robertson To Selena, with Love by Chris Perez The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle by Michael J. Mooney