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More Fool Me (Paperback)
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More Fool Me (Paperback)
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Loot Price R287
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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.
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