num_pages: 436
description: 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.
language: English
title: Moab Is My Washpot
titlecomplete: Moab Is My Washpot
characters: Stephen Fry
genres: British Literature, Autobiography, LGBT, Comedy, Humor, Biography Memoir, Biography, Audiobook, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 24385
series: Memoir
publisher: Arrow