<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">外界对'斯图尔特·肖特'的定义：盗贼、人质挟持者、精神病人、吸毒者、肌肉萎缩症患者、反社会的街头流浪汉等多重身份。 </h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">最后在“斯图尔特·肖特”的讣告上，《独立报》是这样刊登的：斯图尔特·克莱夫·肖特，为流浪汉呼吁的社会活动家，于1968年9月19日生于剑桥；（有一个儿子）；2002年7月6日卒于剑桥郡沃特比奇。 </h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">斯图尔特·肖特的自我定义：我的一生非常有争议，非常不愉快。 </h1>
“亚力山大：“哦，假如必须改变一件事儿，为了纠正这一切就改变一件事儿，那会是什么？ ”
斯图尔特：“答案一样。 我不知道。 改变一件事儿？ 一件事儿是多少？ 改变我哥哥吗？ 那就能改变我的火暴脾气吗？ 改变肌肉萎缩症吗？ 那也改变不了那帮恋童癖们，也改变不了这个制度，是吧？ 这整个一团糟嘛。 不是开玩笑，如果改变一件事儿，所有的你都得改变。 还是只改变我一个人吧。 ”（书结尾一页，作者与主人翁的一段对话）”
Before I opened the book— Stewart's Rewind Life — I knew it wasn't going to put me in a good mood...
When page after page of ink-scented paper flipped in my hand to the end of the book, and saw the group photo of Stuart and the Garvey brothers in their childhood, I stared blankly, and there was only one thought in my mind: everyone was a lovely, pure "angel" in childhood. But some things that have no choice and no change will push people to different life trajectories in the process of everyone's growth, even people with the same growth experience and family background may form a completely different life situation. If you and I are in the same situation as "him", how should we treat it! What kind of life will it be! Even if you and I who read this book are in this situation, it does not mean that this kind of fact does not exist somewhere on the earth, it has always existed, but it does not exist in the sight of some of you and me...
Stewart's Rewind Life is a biographical work about little people. Written in flashbacks. Flashbacks are not new to literary and artistic works. But it is rare to use it for biographical works. The person who proposed to write in this way turned out to be the protagonist himself, 'Stewart'. It was as if he had predicted his life: the end of his "would" be foggy and earth-shattering. Regarding the tragic death of the protagonist, the jury concluded that the case was unsolved: "It is neither a suicide nor an accident, but it is difficult to understand." ”这个结论让本来就杂乱无序，无可预测的生命又披上了一层神秘、悬疑、惊悚之感。 这样的一部小人物传记文学堪称“聊斋志异”。 能上榜《每日电讯报》“定义二O OO年代的百本图书”的书单实属正常。
一部有关一个街头流浪汉的传记作品，场景一定大都是在“监狱”、“底层车库”、“废弃的建筑物”、“垃圾箱里”、“公共厕所”......... 而充斥其中的人物也大都会是“恋童狂”、“吸毒者”、“同性恋者”、“残疾人”、“精神病患者”等。 “暴力”、“毒品”、“偷盗”、“贫穷”、“酒”这些会像幽灵一般游离在这些地方的角角落落，似影子一样紧追随着他们。 这些画面已有大量的影视作品给我们脑补过，无需大家去拼图，就可以直观的体会到。
作者“亚历山大·马斯特斯”，历经三年，用了大量的时间到街头与流浪汉们生活在一起。 跟他们交流，并同他们一起为改变流浪汉生存环境的运动而抗争 。 融入其中，真实的去感受他们的生活状态及思想。 这样书写出来的文字才是由骨与血复活而来的，也才有灵魂的事实呈现。 整部作品对人物的叙述以彼此交流或独白或采访的方式，加之作者语言的幽默诙谐，品味起来让人感其真实又不缺故事性。
整部书看下来没有让我产生“泪点”，也没有激起“愤怒”，更没有生成“谴责”，即便是对因“恋童症”最终被判刑18年的儿童关爱之家的校长——拉弗拉克，及性侵斯图尔特和妹妹的哥哥——加维。 有的只是一种“无力感”：对“贫穷”、对“疾病”、对“苦难”、对所有造成这“一切”问题的无力之感......
Places that are humble to the point of dust also desire dignity, and there will be a time when light will come to hell on earth. In the tragic world of the book, I don't just receive violence, dirtiness, chaos... At the same time, I also received love, selflessness, persistence... : Stewart's mother (Judith) never gave up her love for him; the unjustly detained charity workers Ruth Wyner and John Brock, their bravery and humiliation; the kindness and wisdom of Judge Howworth......... There are too many of these people in the book, and if you want to write their names one by one, I think you should need a booklet, not this short article with feelings (if you admit it is a review). They work hard to make this society fairer and fairer, and they are a lovely group of people who deserve our respect.
This book also has a major highlight, which makes the text in the book come alive, dynamic, and three-dimensional. There is a small card in the book, scan the QR code on it to enter a video, you can watch the conversations and scenes that Stewart's family and the author communicate with them. Readers can listen to the voices of the characters in the book and feel their true emotions and lives at zero distance. This sense of reading allows the reader to reach the peak of reading.
合上书后，电影《肖申克的救赎》中男主“安迪”的名字在我脑洞里蹦了出来，曾经不知在什么地方读到的一段话也随之复刻：“上帝赐予我接受我无法改变之事物的平静，改变可改变之事物的勇气，以及区分这两者之不同的永恒智慧”——这段话“安迪”用行为很好的诠释了它背后所蕴含的“哲理”， It also gives us inspiration for "choice". Give this sentence to all the suffering, struggling, and good "us" – human beings