Alexander Masters

Stuart

A Life Backwards

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Produktbeschreibung

Hailed in Britain as "devastating," "inspirational" ("Saturday Telegraph"), "heartbreaking" ("Saturday Telegraph Magazine") and "hilarious" ("The Spectator"), Masters presents the tragic yet honest story of a boy whose life left the rails early and just kept going.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beall Research
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 141mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780385340885
• ISBN-10: 0385340885
• Artikelnr.: 21053225

Autorenporträt

Alexander Masters was born in New York in 1965 and studied physics and mathematics in London and Cambridge. For the last five years he has worked in hostels for the homeless and run a street newspaper. He has also been an agony aunt, a travel writer, an illustrator, and a bedspread salesman.

Rezensionen

'Unique and wonderful.' Daily Mail

'Possibly the best biography I have ever read.' Mark Haddon

'This is a very rare and haunting book ... A great first book.' Andrew O'Hagan

'Good books like this appear about once every five years. It's been years since I've been so delighted by a book and so surprised by it ... When I'd finished I felt bereft, as if I'd lost an old friend.' Zadie Smith

'Utterly compelling and very funny.' Daily Telegraph

'One of the most remarkable and touching biographies I've ever read.' Minette Marin, Sunday Times

'I feel so strongly about this strange, funny, sad book that I hardly know where to begin ... My enthusiasm feels almost limitless. A page-turner.' Observer

'Funny and original, a startling book ... By the end I was doubled up in tears, but throughout I was often doubled up with laughter. It is dazzling.' Vogue

'A remarkable biography. Unforgettably moving. A gripping read.' Tim Lott, Sunday Times

'A comedy of errors and horrors deftly handled and with a terrifically droll sense of humour.' Melanie McGrath, Evening Standard

'With his first book, Alexander Masters ... has achieved something remarkable. He has, without patronising, given a voice to the "underclass"; at the same time, without preaching, he shows us the value of even the most damaged of human lives ... a powerful book, humane, instructive and entirely original. Sunday Telegraph