Invites readers to take a glimpse at the author's life story. Containing raw, electric extracts from his diaries of the time, this is an account by a man driven to create and to entertain - revealing a side to him he has long kept hidden.
A collection of articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio, includes selected wireless essays of Donald Trefusis, the ageing professor of philology brought to life in Fry's novel "The Liar" and the best of Fry's weekly column for the "Daily Telegraph".
So begins a year-long process of torment and hopelessness, which will destroy his very identity, until almost nothing remains of him but this unquenchable desire for revenge. 'Whatever Stephen Fry does, he has it - that rare, unlearnable quality.
Containing raw, electric extracts from his diaries of the time, this book offers an account by a man driven to create and to entertain - revealing a side to him he has long kept hidden.