STUART: A LIFE BACKWARDS

Book ID/图书代码： 11701206B02086

English Summary/英文概要： This is the story of an extraordinary friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic, knife-wielding beggar whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison. > Interwoven into this is Stuart’s confession: the story of his life, told backwards. With humour, compassion (and exasperation) Masters slowly works back through post-office heists, prison riots and the exact day Stuart discovered violence, to unfold the reasons he changed from a happy-go-lucky little boy into a polydrug-addicted-alcoholic Jekyll and Hyde personality, with a fondness for what he called ’little strips of silver’ (knives, to you and me). STUART, A LIFE BACKWARDS has won an Arts Council Writers’ Award, is funny, despairing, uplifting, brilliantly written, full of surprises: the most original biography for years. It was recently presented on the radio (BBC Radio 4) over the course of a week, with many of the extracts being read by Alexander Masters himself.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是一段作家与乞丐的动人故事，他们在一场战役中相识，就是这名乞丐从监狱里放走了两名慈善机构的工作人员。故事中溶入的也有Stuart的自白自己的生活。幽默，令人同情，使人恼怒，作者慢慢的带领我们去观看邮局的抢劫案，监狱的暴乱。也就是在那天，Stuart喜欢上了暴力，他从一个无忧无律的小男孩变成了一个吸毒，嗜酒的混混，手里经常拿着刀子。

Awards/获奖情况：Masters was at number 4 in the Sunday Times Non-Fiction Paperback Bestseller list last weekend and number 2 on the Amazon UK list.Alexander Masters has also been shortlisted for the Biography of the Year award for this year’s British Book Awards, which is great news.Interestingly Alexander Masters’ book also gets a gets a 5 star average customer rating on Amazon UK. winner of the 2005 Guardian First Book Award > *currently shortlisted Amazon Biography of the Year for the 2006 British Book Awards > *Shortlisted for the 2005 BBC FOUR Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction STUART, A LIFE BACKWARDS has won an Arts Council Writers’ Award, is funny, despairing, uplifting, brilliantly written, full of surprises: the most original biography for years. It was recently presented on the radio (BBC Radio 4) over the course of a week, with many of the extracts being read by Alexander Masters himself. 本书获得了文学理事会最佳作者奖。最近这部作品在BBC广播电台上播放，有些精彩的段落由作者亲自读。本书曾经在〈周末时报》非小说类畅销书排名第四，英国亚马迅排名第二。作者Masters被列为英国图书奖中的传记奖后选名单，本书在英国亚马迅读者评论五星。获得ardian 图书奖，本书同时也获得英国非小说类文学大奖萨缪尔??约翰逊奖，这是一本畅销好多年的原创传记作品。

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Format:TRADE PAPERBACK

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：(STUART: A LIFE BACKWARDS: UK: Fourth Estate; US: Bantam; China: People’s Literature Publishing House; Germany: Antje Kunstmann; Holland: Contact; Hungary: Gabo; Israel: Miskal/Books in the Attic; Italy: Arcana/Fazi; Japan: Kawade; Poland: Twoj Styl; Taiwan: JC Culture.)

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