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02403aam a2200361 i 4500 001 8FBA388C246D11E5A97E42B6DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150707010042 008 140801t20141997nyu 000 0aeng 010 $a 2014030140 020 $a 1616954728 (softcover) 020 $a 9781616954727 (softcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)870896595 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d BKL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR6056.R88 $b Z46 2014 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 084 $a BIO025000 $a BIO025000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Fry, Stephen, $d 1957- 245 10 $a Moab is my washpot / $c Stephen Fry. 264 1 $a New York : $b Soho Press, $c [2014] 300 $a 346 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "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"-- Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Fry, Stephen, $d 1957- $x Childhood and youth. 650 0 $a Novelists, English $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Comedians $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a Actors $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich & Famous. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers. $2 bisacsh 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171226044416.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8FBA388C246D11E5A97E42B6DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search