Stuart: A Life Backwards
by Alexander Mastersliterary work· published 2005
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Stuart: A Life Backwards is a biography by Alexander Masters concerning Masters’ friend Stuart Clive Shorter, formerly, at various times, a prisoner and a career criminal. It explores how a young boy, disabled from birth, became mentally unstable, criminal and violent, living homeless on the streets of Cambridge. 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 on his eventual state.
Adaptations (1)
Stuart: A Life Backwards was adapted into a 2007 television film.
Stuart: A Life Backwards2007 · television film · 92 min · dir. David Attwood · IMDb ↗IMDb7.6Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.
