Alexander Masters

Stuart

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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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373 printed pages
Publication year
2011
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Quotes

  • Sergey Zakharovhas quoted8 years ago
    all the people we used to take the piss out of for being nobs and cunts and arse-lickers, the truth of it is, most of them now have got really nice houses, driving really nice cars, and here we are still sitting in a pub being angry and bitter about the class war. Who’s ended up losing out?
  • Александр Обанинhas quoted10 years ago
    Technically, joyriding does not involve stealing a car, because the person who takes the vehicle doesn’t intend to keep it
  • Александр Обанинhas quoted10 years ago
    During the three years I have known Stuart, my income has rarely exceeded his from the state.

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