Stuart A Life Backwards Book Review

It is not in synopsis at any.

Stuart a life backwards book review. A life backwards by alexander masters the independent. Racing through the proof copy i took it at first to be a blackly comic novel. A life backwards but believe me when i. A life backwards by alexander masters harpercollins 12 99 pp295 i feel so strongly about this strange funny sad book that i hardly know where to begin.

It s hard to fully summarise stuart. This is unusual for a biography and i think works well. It also is a life backwards in the sense of a life that never should have been that way. After awhile alexander discovers he wants to write a book about his new friend s life.

As you can tell through the first introduction of the movie stuart has had a hard life. Unexpectedly the book ends up being a lot about alexander and his feels and relationship with stuart. Stuart is so good it fooled me completely. A life backwards is roughly the life of stuart shorter from the time he was thirty four going backwards through his homeless stretches his prison terms adolescence to boyhood.

It explores how a young boy somewhat disabled from birth became mentally unstable criminal and violent living homeless on the streets of cambridge. In a life backwards stuart gradually takes the author alexander masters and the reader back in time and shows how his life experiences as a child and young adult shaped him into becoming the person that alexander sees which is an unstable adult who eventually looses his life. So it gets the seal of approval. The concept of writing the life story backwards is a great idea actually coming from stuart but it does result in the timeline of his life becoming very chaotic as time jumps forwards and backwards.

It has a great plot really good characters great performances good music and really good directing. There were many times throughout this book that tears sprung to my eyes although not always at the sad bits. A life backwards is a biography by alexander masters of his friend stuart clive shorter formerly at various times a prisoner and a career criminal. My final score for stuart.

Time for my final score. A life backwards isn t always easy to watch but it is still one hell of a good drama. To make it more interesting stuart tells him to write it backwards. This makes the book more difficult to follow than it could have been but does serve to reinforce the way stuart feels about his life.

A life backwards is a rare droll moving film that grows to understand the maddening complexity of life and subsequent near hopelessness in trying to find the factors behind someone s life. A life backwards is a 9 78 10.