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') & Stuart Shorter a homeless knife-wielding thief Told backwards
- Stuart's idea
- it starts with a deeply troubled thirty-two-year-old & 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 & is as extraordinary & unexpected as the man it describes