Stuart by Alexander Masters
Stuart does not like the manuscript. Hes after a bestseller, like what Tom Clancy writes. But you are not an assassin trying to frazzle the president with anthrax bombs, I point out. You are an ex-homeless, ex-junkie psychopath, I do not add.‘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
Alexander Masters lives in London. His second book, ‘The Genius in My Basement’, was published in 2011.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780007200375 |
| ISBN 10 | 0007200374 |
| Title | Stuart |
| Author | Alexander Masters |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2006-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Winner of Hawthornden Prize 2006, Winner of Guardian First Book Award 2005, Short-listed for British Book Awards: Biography of the Year 2006, Short-listed for Whitbread Book Awards: Biography Category 2005, Short-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2005 |
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