Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry

Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry

A number one bestseller in Britain, Stephen Fry's astonishingly frank, funny, wise memoir is the book that his fans everywhere have been waiting for. Since his PBS television debut in the>Blackadder>series, the American profile of this multitalented writer, actor and comedian has grown steadily, especially in the wake of his title role in the film>Wilde, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination, and his supporting role in>A Civil Action.

Fry has already given readers a taste of his tumultuous adolescence in his autobiographical first novel, The Liar, and now he reveals the equally tumultuous life that inspired it. Sent to boarding school at the age of seven, he survived beatings, misery, love affairs, carnal violation, expulsion, attempted suicide, criminal conviction and imprisonment to emerge, at the age of eighteen, ready to start over in a world in which he had always felt a stranger. One of very few Cambridge University graduates to have been imprisoned prior to his freshman year, Fry is a brilliantly idiosyncratic character who continues to attract controversy, empathy and real devotion.

A number one bestseller in Britain, Stephen Fry's astonishingly frank, funny, wise memoir is the book that his fans everywhere have been waiting for. Since his PBS television debut in the>Blackadder>series, the American profile of this multitalented writer, actor and comedian has grown steadily, especially in the wake of his title role in the film>Wilde, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination, and his supporting role in>A Civil Action.

Fry has already given readers a taste of his tumultuous adolescence in his autobiographical first novel, The Liar, and now he reveals the equally tumultuous life that inspired it. Sent to boarding school at the age of seven, he survived beatings, misery, love affairs, carnal violation, expulsion, attempted suicide, criminal conviction and imprisonment to emerge, at the age of eighteen, ready to start over in a world in which he had always felt a stranger. One of very few Cambridge University graduates to have been imprisoned prior to his freshman year, Fry is a brilliantly idiosyncratic character who continues to attract controversy, empathy and real devotion.

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ISBN 13	9781569472026
ISBN 10	1569472025
Title	Moab Is My Washpot
Author	Stephen Fry
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Soho Press
Year published	2003-07-01
Number of pages	384
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