You’ll also find plenty of heart-rending stories – or case studies in the professional parlance – provided by voluntary and statutory projects who try and help put the homeless back on a more viable long term path to social stability. How do you tell the story of a homeless man and the conditions that created him? There’s no shortage of journalism and academic journal articles, policy pronouncements and sociological tracts that try to tell us about the nature of homelessness. I’ve been prompted to do this review because the author, Alexander Masters, has just released his new book A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found In A Skip and before I go on to read that one I wanted to revisit Stuart because I thought it was a remarkable debut. I read Stuart : A Life Backwards in 2005 when it was first published and it has stuck with me ever since. Posted on Stuart: A life backwards by Alexander Masters
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