Masters has enriched his book with quirky, New Yorker-ish line drawings of Stuart Clive Shorter and others in which people’s heads seem too big for their bodies. But it fits this biography of an intelligent and self-aware but physically and mentally impaired man – half Jekyll, half Hyde - whom the author got to know when both were living in or near Cambridge, England. “Charming” isn’t a word often applied to books about “an ex-homeless, ex-junkie psychopath,” as Alexander Masters describes his subject. I picked up Stuart, a recent finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award that I loved when I started it last year but kept having to return to the library because people were on the waiting list.
Phil,” “Mitch Albom” and “human shish kabob scene by Thomas Harris.” What book would you choose? Suppose – in other words – that you were me and needed something that would induce temporary amnesia for words like “Dr. Suppose that you had just slogged through ten of the year’s worst books and wanted to read one that would rekindle your faith in authors and publishers. A charming - yes, charming - biography of an “ex-homeless, ex-junkie psychopath”
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