{"product_id":"life-discarded-hb-z49","title":"Alexander Masters: A Life Discarded [2016] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the suspense of a murder mystery. Written with his characteristic warmth, respect and humour, Masters asks you to join him in celebrating an unknown and important life left on the scrap heap.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eA Life Discarded is a biographical detective story. In 2001, 148 tattered and mould-covered notebooks were discovered lying among broken bricks in a skip on a building site in Cambridge. Tens of thousands of pages were filled to the edges with urgent handwriting. They were a small part of an intimate, anonymous diary, starting in 1952 and ending half a century later, a few weeks before the books were thrown out. Over five years, the award-winning biographer Alexander Masters uncovers the identity and real history of their author, with an astounding final revelation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eA Life Discarded is a true, shocking, poignant, often hilarious story of an ordinary life. The author of the diaries, known only as `I', is the tragicomic patron saint of everyone who feels their life should have been more successful. Part thrilling detective story, part love story, part social history, A Life Discarded is also an account of two writers' obsessions: of `I's need to record every second of life and of Masters' pursuit of this mysterious yet universal diarist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Masters, Alexander","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46596056514899,"sku":"9780008130770","price":8.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/masters-alexander-alexander-masters-a-life-discarded-2016-hardback-9780008130770-58076452618579.jpg?v=1727823186","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/life-discarded-hb-z49","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}