Stuart A Life Backwards Real

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Stuart a life backwards real. Aspiring writer alexander masters benedict cumberbatch through working with homeless people meets stuart tom hardy a homeless alcoholic with a traumatic past. It is because he has had the almost unbelievable social adroitness to be able to fit in smoothly with an educated soft skinned person like myself and not make me frightened half to death. As alexander gets to know stuart more he asks him if he can write his life story it is stuart who suggests the story be written backwards. It explores how a young boy somewhat disabled from birth became mentally unstable criminal and violent living homeless on the streets of cambridge.

The story is written in reverse by doing so alexander gains an insight into how stuart s life became so chaotic and out of control. It is because he has had the superhuman strength not to be defeated by this isolation. 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. A life backwards a 2007 film starring benedict cumberbatch and tom hardy as alexander master and stuart shorter respectively.

A writer takes a backwards look at the life of his unlikely friend stuart a homeless alcoholic who experienced a traumatic event in his childhood. An unlikely friendship bloomed and in a new book stuart. And we follow the two as their lives evolve because of their unlikely friendship. This is also our first film that s based on a true story.

3 97 rating details 4 079 ratings 433 reviews. As the title suggests the book starts from shorter s adult life and works backwards to trace through his troubled childhood examining the effects his family schooling and disability had. A life backwards if stuart is a freak. With benedict cumberbatch tom hardy nicola duffett claire louise cordwell.

A life backwards by. It was in that way that he met stuart a homeless drug addicted ex con lying on the sidewalk in cambridge england. Quote from stuart.