Moab is my washpot: an autobiography
by Fry, Stephen
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.
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- Full title :Moab is my washpot : an autobiography / Stephen Fry.
Summary
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.
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- Publication Date:2000, ©1997.
- Edition:1st U.S. pbk. ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Soho Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2000, ©1997.
Notes
Originally published: New York : Random House, 1999.
The Physical Object
- Description:366 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781569472026, 1569472025
- oclc:ocm43296549
- LC Classification:PR6056.R88
- Dewey Decimal:823/.914
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