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Through the particulars of a fractured life, including stays in seventeen prisons and a parking garage, Masters hopes to answer Stuart's question "What murdered the boy I was?" Masters is candid about his exasperation with Stuart — he confesses at one point to feeling "sated" with his subject's troubles — and achieves a perfect balance of empathy and comedy.
At last, Stuart pressed his biographer to scrap a pedantic first draft and start over, this time telling the tale "backwards". The idea? Hook the reader, and show "what murdered the boy I was". Masters, the English-educated journalist son of the American writers Joan Brady and Dexter Masters, wisely took this editorial advice.
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Most important, it taught me that I was master of my own destiny.
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Once I was master of recycling leftovers.
I was still trying to figure out, somehow, I'm Masters champion.
Meaning: I am master here.
Oh, and I am mastering irony and sarcasm, the two highest forms of communication.
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It's funny, since coming here, I'd say I am mastering the art of processing the mid-range collection.
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