Fry also developed close and enduring friendships with such future luminaries of the stage and screen as Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson. He immersed himself in the Cambridge arts scene and joined the prestigious Footlights Club, which had also nurtured the comic talents of Eric Idle and John Cleese. After a youth filled with “suicide attempts, tantrums and madness” and a stint in prison for petty theft and fraud, Fry buckled down and demonstrated his ample intellect by winning a scholarship to read English at Queens’ College. In this second installment of the author’s ongoing autobiographical project, the British comedian tells the story of his student years at Cambridge and early professional life at BBC radio and television. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.Actor and bestselling author Fry’s ( Stephen Fry in America, 2009, etc.) at times meandering but always charming memoir of “a late adolescence and early manhood crowded with incident.” A delicious novel of rise and rise of a brilliant young man, which is filled with such vivid background, such unerring social observation, so many wonderful characters and such beguiling incident.' Guardian Spanning 1979-1987, this title charts the author's arrival at Cambridge up to his thirtieth birthday. A joyus allegro vivace of infectious comic bravura. we are splendidly better for it.' Observer 'Deliciously gossipy and very funny.' The Times 'Extraordinary, affectionate, engaging, cunningly planned and so crammed with incidental delights. A painfully honest attempt to tear the mask aside. What Fry does, essentially, is tell us who he really is.

A grand reminiscence of college and theatre and comedyland in the 1980s, with tone-perfect showbiz anecdotes, and genuine readerly excitement. Most readers will want to close the book and give it a hug.' Daily Telegraph 'Extremely enjoyable.' Sunday Times 'Fascinating.

'Stretching from Fry's success at Cambridge, where he met the comic love of his life, Hugh Laurie, to his first forays into television, this is one of the funniest, most generous, most daring pieces of confessional writing published in years. Spanning 1979-1987, The Fry Chronicles charts Stephen's arrival at Cambridge up to his thirtieth birthday.

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