Moab Is My WashpotA 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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User Review - ElizabethCromb - LibraryThingIt was interesting to read Stephen's take on his junior years. It's amazing that given his disfunctional start he has managed a very successful career and life. Read full review
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User Review - gpower61 - LibraryThingThe schoolboy version of Stephen Fry was clearly as industrious as the grown up model. When not pursuing a busy career as a thief he was being wittily insolent to the teachers at his public school ... Read full review
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 25 |
Section 3 | 55 |
Section 4 | 57 |
Section 5 | 83 |
Section 6 | 121 |
Section 7 | 169 |
Section 8 | 255 |
Section 9 | 283 |
Section 10 | 307 |
Section 11 | 332 |
Section 12 | 339 |
Section 13 | 343 |
Section 14 | 345 |
Section 15 | 347 |
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