Moab Is My Washpot

A ​number one bestseller in Britain that topped the lists there for months, 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. This extraordinary and affecting book has „a tragic grandeur that lifts it to classic status,” raved the Financial Times in one of the many ecstatic British reviews. Stephen Fry's autobiography, in turns funny, shocking, sad, bruisingly frank and always compulsively readable, could well become a classic gay coming-of-age memoir. "Stephen Fry Is One Of The Great Originals This Autobiography Of His First Twenty Years Is A Pleasure To Read Mixing Outrageous Acts With Sensible Opinions In Bewildering Confusion That So Much Outward Charm Selfawareness And Intellect Should Exist Alongside Behaviour That Threatened To Ruin The Lives Of Innocent Victims Noble Parents And Fry Himself Gives The Book A Tragic Grandeur And Lifts It To Classic Status" - Financial Times "He Writes Superbly About His Family About His Homosexuality About The Agonies Of Childhood Some Of His Bursts Of Simile Take The Breath Away His Most Satisfying And Appealing Book So Far" - Observer "This Is One Of The Most Extraordinary And Affecting Biographies I Have Read Stephen Is Painfully Honest When Trying To Grapple With His Everpresent Demons And Often As You Might Expect Very Funny I Hope To Goodness There'll Be A Sequel I Can't Wait For" - Daily Mail