More Fool Me af Stephen Fry fra Penguin (Bog)

Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me.

'Oh dear I am an arse. I expect there'll be what I believe is called an "intervention" soon. I keep picturing it. All my friends bearing down on me and me denying everything until my pockets are emptied. Oh the shame'

In his early thirties, Stephen Fry - writer, comedian, star of stage and screen - had, as they say, 'made it'. Much loved in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster, author of a critically acclaimed and bestselling first novel, The Liar, with a glamorous and glittering cast of friends, he had more work than was perhaps good for him.

What could possibly go wrong?

Then, as the 80s drew to a close, he discovered a most enjoyable way to burn the candle at both ends, and took to excess like a duck to breadcrumbs. Writing and recording by day, and haunting a never ending series of celebrity parties, drinking dens, and poker games by night, in a ludicrous and impressive act of bravado, he fooled all those except the very closest to him, some of whom were most enjoyably engaged in the same dance.

He was - to all intents and purposes - a high functioning addict. Blazing brightly and partying wildly as the 80s turned to the 90s, AIDS became an epidemic and politics turned really nasty, he was so busy, so distracted by the high life, that he could hardly see the inevitable, headlong tumble that must surely follow . . .

Containing raw, electric extracts from his diaries of the time, More Fool Me is a brilliant, eloquent account by a man driven to create and to entertain - revealing a side to him he has long kept hidden

Titel: More Fool Me af Stephen Fry

Denne bog, 'More Fool Me', skrevet af Stephen Fry, er en memoir af hans liv i 1980'erne og 1990'erne. Bogen tilbyder et indblik i hans periode med berømmelse og de op- og nedture, der fulgte. Stephen Fry er kendt for sin humoristiske skrift og livfulde anekdoter, som også præger denne memoir. Bogen er en paperback-udgave udgivet af Penguin. Den indeholder et dybdegående og underholdende perspektiv på Fry's livsstil og kampe.

Tags: biografi, Stephen Fry, memoir

Forfatter: Stephen Fry

Genre: Biografi

Forlag: Penguin

Sammendrag: In the late 80s and early 90s, Stephen Fry had, you might say, 'made it'. Loved for his roles in Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster, acclaimed for his novel The Liar and surrounded by a glamorous and glittering cast of friends, Stephen discovered that success gave him a taste for excess. Plunging into the high life, he blazed brightly in public and partied unashamedly in private - insensible of the fall which inevitably lay ahead. How had Stephen - so driven to create and entertain - lost his way?

Type: Paperback