![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It won Masters critical praise and a television movie deal when it was published last year in Britain. "Stuart: A Life Backwards" is a remarkable account of a free fall into the state that British social workers label "chaotic" homelessness. Masters, the English-educated journalist son of the American writers Joan Brady and Dexter Masters, wisely took this editorial advice. At last, Stuart pressed his biographer to scrap a pedantic first draft and start over, this time telling the tale "backwards." The idea? Hook the reader, and show "what murdered the boy I was." Two years later, Masters was still seeking a literary scaffolding for his subject's extraordinarily difficult life. 'little strips of silver' - knives, to you and me," he decided to write a book about him. SOON after Alexander Masters got to know Stuart Shorter, a "polydrug-addicted, alcoholic, 'Jekyll and Hyde' personality with delusional paranoia and a fondness for. ![]()
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