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    "A life lived to the hum of outrage; On the road with Sancho and the Don: this is a comedy of errors and horrors charmingly told.(Book Review)." The Evening Standard (London, England). Solo Syndication Limited. 2005. HighBeam Research. 5 Feb. 2012 <http://www.highbeam.com>.

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    "A life lived to the hum of outrage; On the road with Sancho and the Don: this is a comedy of errors and horrors charmingly told.(Book Review)." The Evening Standard (London, England). 2005. HighBeam Research. (February 5, 2012). http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-131875875.html

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Byline: MELANIE MCGRATH

Stuart, A Life Backwards

by Alexander Masters

(Fourth Estate, [pounds sterling]12.99)

IN September 2001, homelessness campaigner and frustrated writer Alexander Masters ran into a small, hyperactive, articulate, knife-wielding " exhomeless, ex- junkie psychopath" called Stuart Shorter. Shorter's evaluation of Masters as a " middleclass scum ponce" being no impediment to a friendship, the two men hung around together for a couple of years and eventually agreed to collaborate on a book.

The work was to be a biography of Stuart's spectacularly awful life. Masters hoped the book would launch his career as a …


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