Book description
'One of the most poignant, funny, intelligent, frank and horribly
addictive books you're likely to read all year' Sunday Telegraph
Moab is My Washpot is in turns funny, shocking, tender,
delicious, sad, lyrical, bruisingly frank and addictively readable.
Stephen Fry's bestselling memoir tells how, sent to a boarding
school 200 miles from home at the age of seven, he survived beatings,
misery, love, ecstasy, carnal violation, expulsion, imprisonment,
criminal conviction, probation and catastrophe to emerge, at eighteen,
ready to try and face the world in which he had always felt a
stranger.
Fry writes with the wit to which we have become accustomed, but with
shocking candour too. In an age of glossy celebrity autobiographies,
Moab is My Washpot sets the high standard to which others
should aspire.
Stephen Fry
was born in Hampstead in 1957 and, following a troubled adolescence,
went on to study English Literature at Queen's College, Cambridge. As
well as being the bestselling author of four novels,
The Stars'
Tennis Balls
,
Making History
,
The Hippopotamus
, and
The Liar
, and two volumes of his autobiography, Fry played Peter in
Peter's Friends
, Wilde in the film
Wilde
, Jeeves in the television series
Jeeves & Wooster
and (a closely guarded show-business secret, this) Laurie in the
television series
Fry & Laurie
. More recently, he presented
Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the
Manic Depressive
, his groundbreaking documentary on bipolar disorder, to huge critical
acclaim. And his legions of fans tune in to watch him host the popular
quiz show
QI
each week.
