{"product_id":"stuart-a-life-backwards-4th-estate-matchbook-classics-by-alexander-masters","title":"Stuart: A Life Backwards (4th Estate Matchbook Classics) by Alexander Masters","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe winner of the Guardian First Book Award that reinvented the biographic form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStuart: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43319258153034,"sku":"6297q","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6297q.jpg?v=1771300361","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/stuart-a-life-backwards-4th-estate-matchbook-classics-by-alexander-masters","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}