Moab Is My Washpot (Memoir #1)
Moab Is My Washpot (Memoir #1)
Author: Stephen Fry
Desc: 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.