- Actors, Biography, Childhood and youth, Comedians
"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.
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Classical in form, spare, overwhelming and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Stephen Fry
- First published
- October 1, 2000
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- ARROW (RAND), Penguin Random House, Soho Press, Incorporated
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780099727316
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Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is a British actor, writer, journalist, comedian, television presenter and film director. He first came to attention in the 1982 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation, "The Cellar Tapes", which also included Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster. As a solo actor, Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, was Melchett in the Blackadder television series and is the host of the quiz show, QI. He also presented a 2008 television series Stephen Fry in America, which saw him trav
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