Stuart: A life Backwards
Editorial HARPER COLLINS
España peninsular
- Editorial HARPER COLLINS
- ISBN13 9780008329723
- ISBN10 0008329729
- Tipo LIBRO
- Colección INGLES #
- Año de Edición 2019
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Paperback
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BiografiasStuart: A life Backwards
Editorial HARPER COLLINS
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
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.