Stuart: A Life Backwards
€15.50
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780008329723 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Harper Collins |
| Publishing Date | 04/04/2019 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €14.62 |
| Tax | €0.88 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €15.50 |
| Availability | 1 unit |
Product Description
The winner of the Guardian First Book Award that reinvented the biographic form.One of the ten books – novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography – that make up our Matchbook Classics’ series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. Stuart: A Life Backwards expanded the possibilities of what a biography could be: the stories it could tell, and how it could tell them. It is about 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 thief, hostage-taker, psycho and street raconteur.Told backwards – Stuart’s idea – it starts with a deeply troubled thirty-two-year-old stepping out in front of the 11.15 train from London to King’s Lynn, and ends with a ‘happy-go-lucky little boy’ of twelve. Compelling, humane and funny, it is as extraordinary and unexpected as the life it describes.