L'hippopotame
by Stephen Fry
Plus féroce que jamais, Stephen Fry se lance ici dans une satire débridée des petites et grandes mascarades sociales. Poète déchu, critique dramatique acariâtre, vieux libidineux aigri, confit de misanthropie et imbibé de whisky, Ted Wallace est un inébranlable rationaliste, un irréductible pourfendeur de tabous, un ennemi tonitruant des bonnes manières. Aussi entrevoit-on le désastre lorsqu'il est lâché dans la très chic partie de campagne de Lord Logan, investi d'une délicate " mission secrète " : faire l'entière lumière sur de prétendues guérisons miraculeuses... Sous les yeux alarmés d'une poignée d'aspirants miraculés, Ted et ses diatribes insolentes de bon sens vont semer la panique au royaume des tartufes : les femmes, les hommes, les vieux snobs ringards et les jeunes cons prétentieux, les crédules et les sceptiques... Tandis que le ravissant David, quinze ans, poursuit un énigmatique dialogue avec les forces de la nature, personne ne sortira indemne de cette impitoyable et provocante comédie de mœurs.
Literature & FictionGenre FictionWorld LiteratureEuropean
RELEASED2000
PUBLISHERBelfond
LENGTH357
LANGUAGEFR
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is a British actor, writer, journalist, comedian, television presenter and film director. He first came to attention in the 1982 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation, "The Cellar Tapes", which also included Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster. As a solo actor, Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, was Melchett in the Blackadder television series and is the host of the quiz show, QI. He also presented a 2008 television series Stephen Fry in America, which saw him travelling across all 50 U.S. states in six episodes. Fry has become known to American audiences for his recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the Fox crime series Bones. Since the publication of his first novel, *The Liar* (1993), Fry has written three additional novels, several non-fiction works and an autobiography. *Making History* (1997) is partly set in an alternative universe where Adolf Hitler's father is made infertile and his replacement proves a rather more effective Führer. The book won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. *The Hippopotamus* (1994) centers around Edward (Ted/Tedward) Wallace and his stay at his old friend Lord Logan's country manor in Norfolk. *The Stars' Tennis Balls* (2000) is a modern retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo. Fry's book, *The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within*, is a guide to writing poetry. In the United Kingdom, he is a well-known narrator of audiobooks, notably the Harry Potter series. He has recorded audio versions of works by Roald Dahl, Michael Bond, A. A. Milne, Anthony Buckeridge and Douglas Adams, as well as several of his own books. When writing a book review for Tatler, Fry wrote under an alias, Williver Hendry, editor of *A Most Peculiar Friendship: The Correspondence of Lord Alfred Douglas and Jack Dempsey*, a field close to Fry's heart as an Oscar Wilde enthusiast. Once a columnist in The Listener and The Daily Telegraph, he now writes a weekly technology column in the Saturday edition of The Guardian. His blog attracted more than 300,000 visitors in its first two weeks of existence. On 26 May 2009, Fry unveiled The Dongle of Donald Trefusis, an audiobook series following the character Donald Trefusis (a character from Fry's novel The Liar and from the BBC Radio 4 series Loose Ends), set over 12 episodes. After its release, it reached No. 1 on the UK Album Chart album chart list. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry
L'hippopotame
by Stephen Fry
Plus féroce que jamais, Stephen Fry se lance ici dans une satire débridée des petites et grandes mascarades sociales. Poète déchu, critique dramatique acariâtre, vieux libidineux aigri, confit de misanthropie et imbibé de whisky, Ted Wallace est un inébranlable rationaliste, un irréductible pourfendeur de tabous, un ennemi tonitruant des bonnes manières. Aussi entrevoit-on le désastre lorsqu'il est lâché dans la très chic partie de campagne de Lord Logan, investi d'une délicate " mission secrète " : faire l'entière lumière sur de prétendues guérisons miraculeuses... Sous les yeux alarmés d'une poignée d'aspirants miraculés, Ted et ses diatribes insolentes de bon sens vont semer la panique au royaume des tartufes : les femmes, les hommes, les vieux snobs ringards et les jeunes cons prétentieux, les crédules et les sceptiques... Tandis que le ravissant David, quinze ans, poursuit un énigmatique dialogue avec les forces de la nature, personne ne sortira indemne de cette impitoyable et provocante comédie de mœurs.
Literature & FictionGenre FictionWorld LiteratureEuropean
RELEASED2000
PUBLISHERBelfond
LENGTH357
LANGUAGEFR
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is a British actor, writer, journalist, comedian, television presenter and film director. He first came to attention in the 1982 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation, "The Cellar Tapes", which also included Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster. As a solo actor, Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, was Melchett in the Blackadder television series and is the host of the quiz show, QI. He also presented a 2008 television series Stephen Fry in America, which saw him travelling across all 50 U.S. states in six episodes. Fry has become known to American audiences for his recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the Fox crime series Bones. Since the publication of his first novel, *The Liar* (1993), Fry has written three additional novels, several non-fiction works and an autobiography. *Making History* (1997) is partly set in an alternative universe where Adolf Hitler's father is made infertile and his replacement proves a rather more effective Führer. The book won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. *The Hippopotamus* (1994) centers around Edward (Ted/Tedward) Wallace and his stay at his old friend Lord Logan's country manor in Norfolk. *The Stars' Tennis Balls* (2000) is a modern retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo. Fry's book, *The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within*, is a guide to writing poetry. In the United Kingdom, he is a well-known narrator of audiobooks, notably the Harry Potter series. He has recorded audio versions of works by Roald Dahl, Michael Bond, A. A. Milne, Anthony Buckeridge and Douglas Adams, as well as several of his own books. When writing a book review for Tatler, Fry wrote under an alias, Williver Hendry, editor of *A Most Peculiar Friendship: The Correspondence of Lord Alfred Douglas and Jack Dempsey*, a field close to Fry's heart as an Oscar Wilde enthusiast. Once a columnist in The Listener and The Daily Telegraph, he now writes a weekly technology column in the Saturday edition of The Guardian. His blog attracted more than 300,000 visitors in its first two weeks of existence. On 26 May 2009, Fry unveiled The Dongle of Donald Trefusis, an audiobook series following the character Donald Trefusis (a character from Fry's novel The Liar and from the BBC Radio 4 series Loose Ends), set over 12 episodes. After its release, it reached No. 1 on the UK Album Chart album chart list. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry
