Summary
As a child, Fry led a life that suggested he was more likely to end up in prison (as, in fact, he did for a while before college) than in pictures. After wearing out teachers and parents with his thievery, sexual antics, and general tendency to trouble, Fry matriculated to Pucklechurch Prison and Cambridge before taking off on his illustrious acting career. His memoir focuses on those turbulent early years, remembering them as largely enjoyable, if inauspicious.
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"The bizarre world of the English boarding school is the setting for...[this] engaging memoir of his boyhood....Fry has a knack for depicting childhood's unhappiness....[His] voice grows stronger as his story builds." -- Randy Cohen
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 1999
Size: 6.25 x 9.75 inches
Weight: 1.5 pounds
Pages: 336
Publisher's Notes
The star of "Jeeves and Wooster" and "Wilde" presents this British bestseller that is by turns funny, shocking, sad, bruisingly frank, and always compulsively readable.
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