{"product_id":"9780007200375-secondhand-stuart-a-life-backwards","title":"Stuart: A Life Backwards","description":"'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.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49176456069339,"sku":"9780007200375-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/5d4bd9a1-f903-44ba-ac05-f23651c80e86.jpg?v=1787571112","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780007200375-secondhand-stuart-a-life-backwards","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}