STUART A LIFE BACKWARDS FREE

The two men got to know each other well while working on a campaign to free the 'Cambridge Two': Ruth Wyner, the director of Wintercomfort, and her deputy, John Brock, jailed because 'rough sleepers' had been secretly exchanging drugs on the premises. Masters knew Shorter for only the last four years of the latter's life. All you can really say for sure is that Shorter's adult state had been ludicrously over-determined. A skull fracture, undiagnosed for 20 years, might also have had something to do with it or being buggered with a milk bottle by his brother or the citric acid he'd been injecting for years. It isn't a bedsit and employment that they need it is a new brain.'Дiscovering, as a partly-disabled child, the power of rage to frighten other people, Shorter realised that if he lost control and became 'rageous' nobody would ever call him 'spaggy legs' again. When hearing about the word voice, peopleвЂ™s would think about different notations: Some may think about the music they heard about in the leisure time, some may think about the perspective of one person, the unique perspective of someone.Today I want to talk the latter one and how I. Masters says: 'Where everyone else has one disaster, his sort has 700, all at the same time. He is one of the chronic homeless, the people whose lives are one long self-induced crisis. He's just badly, badly damaged or, as he calls it, 'chaotic'. It also is a 'life backwards' in the sense of a life that never should have been that way. Shorter comes across in this book as the opposite of stupid. So STUART: A LIFE BACKWARDS is, roughly, the life of Stuart Shorter from the time he was thirty-four going backwards through his homeless stretches, his prison terms, adolescence, to boyhood. But Shorter was a very funny bloke and so is Masters it's one reason why they got on so well.

Given its almost overwhelmingly grim subject matter, it's astonishing that this book should be so funny.

Stuart a life backwards