Moab Is My Washpot

· Random House
4.3
37 reviews
eBook
448
Pages
Eligible
Ratings and reviews aren’t verified  Learn more

About this eBook

______________________________
The original bestselling autobiography by comedian, novelist and national treasure Stephen Fry.

Few people serve time in prison before studying at Cambridge. You might be surprised to know that Stephen Fry is one of them.

Moab is My Washpot, the remarkable story of Stephen Fry's tumultuous early life, is by turns funny, shocking, tender, delicious, sad, lyrical, bruisingly frank and addictively readable.

It's the story of a boy sent to a boarding school 200 miles from home at the age of seven, who survives 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 and warmth which have become his hallmark, but with shocking candour too. For anyone seeking to understand one of Britain's greatest cultural treasures, this book is utterly essential reading.

Ratings and reviews

4.3
37 reviews
Claire Finnie
20 October 2014
This book isn't a wishy-washy nostalgic biography but a heart rending story of a man who understands he is flawed but is struggling to understand why. I'm not sure if this book has helped him in this however. Like many people he is struggling to come up with excuses for himself. For example, he claimed at one point that developing a crush on Matthew at the public school was the reason for his thieving but he had already alluded to stealing from the changing rooms at prep school.
1 person found this review helpful
Did you find this helpful?
Paul Carter
10 March 2019
Boring.... sorry I'm a big fan of Stephen Fry and was expecting more. He just waffles on about nothing most of the time. gave up a third of the way into the book.
Did you find this helpful?
A Google user
6 April 2012
One of those books that I call ‘a meal of a read’. It’s nourishing, and, after reading, you feel full of wordy and descriptive goodness. With a vocabulary as vast as an ocean, Fry is able to use precisely the right word to convey, exactly, every thought, feeling and action. As a result, this book, as is true of all Fry’s writing, is as immersive, enjoyable and rewarding as anything I’ve ever read. Moab Is My Washpot puts the reader right there with Stephen, experiencing life, well, the part of life covered in the book, anyway, with him; you’re like a confidant, a friend, and, just as with a friend, he pulls few punches and is searingly honest and brutally frank. He is also his witty, clever, charming self.
Did you find this helpful?

About the author

Stephen Fry is an award-winning comedian, actor, presenter and director. He rose to fame alongside Hugh Laurie in A Bit of Fry and Laurie (which he co-wrote with Laurie) and Jeeves and Wooster, and was unforgettable as General Melchett in Blackadder. He has hosted over 180 episodes of QI, and has narrated all seven of the Harry Potter novels for the audiobook recordings. He is the bestselling author of four novels - The Stars' Tennis Balls, Making History, The Hippopotamus and The Liar - as well as three volumes of autobiography - Moab is My Washpot, The Fry Chronicles and More Fool Me. Mythos and Heroes, his retelling of the Greek myths, are both Sunday Times bestsellers.

Rate this eBook

Tell us what you think.

Reading information

Smartphones and tablets
Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.
Laptops and computers
You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.
eReaders and other devices
To read on e-ink devices like Kobo eReaders, you'll need to download a file and transfer it to your device. Follow the detailed Help Centre instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders.