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The World Now by Alexander Chow-Stuart
Better than a thousand useless words is one single word that gives peace - Dhammapada 100
About Me
Check out Alexander's Internet Movie Database (IMDb) entry.
And Alexander's professional website: www.alexanderstuart.com
Photo by Robin Barton, GQ
Guardian Questionnaire
Extract from The Guardian Questionnaire with Alexander Stuart, compiled by Rosanna Greenstreet for Britain's Guardian newspaper:
What is your greatest happiness?
Being home with my wife and children.
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Hatred.
What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
I'm more interested in vice.
What would your motto be?
Breathe slowly and enjoy.
How would you like to die?
With a sense of bliss.
Do you believe in life after death?
I believe in continuity.
How would you like to be remembered?
With a smile.
What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
To love.
What is your greatest happiness?
Being home with my wife and children.
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Hatred.
What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
I'm more interested in vice.
What would your motto be?
Breathe slowly and enjoy.
How would you like to die?
With a sense of bliss.
Do you believe in life after death?
I believe in continuity.
How would you like to be remembered?
With a smile.
What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
To love.
The War Zone
The new, updated and fully revised 20th Anniversary Edition of my novel, The War Zone (written under my original/professional name, Alexander Stuart), is now available on Amazon Kindle for $9.99, and as a regular book from Amazon, BarnesandNoble.com and other bookstores.
A dark, ironic, emotionally-charged novel about incest, adolescent fury and parental morality, the novel won Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (now the Costa Book Awards) when it was first published, only to have the prize snatched away amid much public controversy when one of the judges politicked behind the scenes.
Dubbed a contemporary Catcher in the Rye by Time Out magazine, The War Zone was turned into a powerful, multi-award-winning film by Oscar-nominated actor-director, Tim Roth, which premiered at Sundance and went on to attract great acclaim at film festivals around the world. (The film can be streamed from Netflix and is available on DVD through Amazon.)
The new 20th Anniversary Edition is fully revised and updated and includes both the original British and American opening chapters, as well as an Afterword by Tim Roth, my diary of the making of the film, and an introduction that includes the striking prepublication letter that Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, sent me, along with his cover quote:
"This is a pungent shocking book, superbly written (sharp, sensuous, bitter) which...presents the theme of incest...as a symbol of social breakdown. I was horrified but seduced from first to last. The writing is remarkable."
A dark, ironic, emotionally-charged novel about incest, adolescent fury and parental morality, the novel won Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (now the Costa Book Awards) when it was first published, only to have the prize snatched away amid much public controversy when one of the judges politicked behind the scenes.
Dubbed a contemporary Catcher in the Rye by Time Out magazine, The War Zone was turned into a powerful, multi-award-winning film by Oscar-nominated actor-director, Tim Roth, which premiered at Sundance and went on to attract great acclaim at film festivals around the world. (The film can be streamed from Netflix and is available on DVD through Amazon.)
The new 20th Anniversary Edition is fully revised and updated and includes both the original British and American opening chapters, as well as an Afterword by Tim Roth, my diary of the making of the film, and an introduction that includes the striking prepublication letter that Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, sent me, along with his cover quote:
"This is a pungent shocking book, superbly written (sharp, sensuous, bitter) which...presents the theme of incest...as a symbol of social breakdown. I was horrified but seduced from first to last. The writing is remarkable."
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Writers Guild of America, West
I am a proud member of the Writers Guild of America, West, which provides outstanding healthcare and other benefits to its members.