Moab Is My Washpot: An Autobiography - Brossura

Fry, Stephen

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ISBN 10: 1569472025 ISBN 13: 9781569472026

Casa editrice: Soho Pr Inc, 2000

Riassunto

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 theBlackadder series, the American profile of this multitalented writer, actor and comedian has grown steadily, especially in the wake of his title role in the filmWilde, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination, and his supporting role inA 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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Praise for Moab Is My Washpot

"Fry is a master of provocative tangents and he remembers with a cheeky wit . . . Delicious."
—The New Yorker

"An engagingly rueful memoir . . . Enormously entertaining."
—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Book Review

"This book bubbles; it boils and it bubbles with wonderful language, quick wit, and loopy digression . . . [Fry's] voice is delightfully irreverent, cozy, smart, funny and insightfully honest . . . A great read!"
—Spalding Gray

"Fry, well known for his television roles in the British comedies Jeeves and Wooster and Blackadder, continues to entertain in this fresh and hilarious boyhood memoir . . . His hindsight provides witty entertainment in this gay coming-of-age story that will delight readers . . . With this daring and feisty story, Fry will delight fans and nonfans."
—Booklist

"The engaging Mr. Fry admits to lies, thievery, homosexuality, excessive cleverness, and other peccadilloes in this boarding-school adventure . . . An author in the long and honorable tradition of English Eccentrics, Theatrical Division, presents his coming-of-age story. With all the wit and Pythonesque antics, his book will entertain the Masterpiece Theatre crowd and others as well."
—Kirkus Reviews

L'autore

Stephen Fry has written three novels—The Liar, The Hippopotamus and Making History—and played Peter in the film Peter's Friends, Oscar Wilde in the filmWilde, Jeeves in the TV series Jeeves & Wooster, and teamed up with Hugh Laurie in the TV seriesA Bit of Fry and Laurie.

He currently divides his time between New York and his English homes in London and Norfolk.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Soho Pr Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1569472025
• ISBN 13: 9781569472026
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 366