-Stuart does not like the manuscript. He-s 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.-This is the story of 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 homeless, knife-wielding thief. Told backwards - Stuart-s idea - it starts with a deeply troubled thirty-two-year-old and ends with a -happy-go-lucky little boy- of twelve. This brilliant biography, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, presents a humbling portrait of homeless life, and is as extraordinary and unexpected as the man it describes.
