6/30/2023 0 Comments Stuart by Alexander Masters![]() “In biography, most of the time, the real person is a nuisance,” Masters sighs. ![]() One of the charms of this book is that Stuart comments occasionally about the current draft, offering suggestions, sniffing derisively or dismissively about the text. ![]() When Masters finished a first draft, he showed it to Stuart, who said it was boring and should be organized more like a thriller or detective novel that worked backwards through events until the discovery of the Truth. The first-time author worked on Stuart Shorter’s story for several years, experiencing the frustrations and occasional joys of a close association with someone caught in chaos. British homeless advocate Masters crafts an unconventional biography of a man who raged not only at the dying of the light but often at the very light itself. ![]()
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