"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 st...

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1. Verfasser:	Fry, Stephen 1957- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York, NY Soho Press 2014
Schlagworte:	Fry, Stephen, > 1957- > Childhood and youth Fry, Stephen > 1957- Geschichte 1900-2000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich & Famous BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers Novelists, English > 20th century > Biography Comedians > Great Britain > Biography Actors > Great Britain > Biography Großbritannien Biografie
Zusammenfassung:	"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"..
Beschreibung:	346 p.
ISBN:	9781616954727