Loitering with Intent: The Child: Volume 1

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2014
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Peter O'Toole's account of his early life - a childhood framed by Captain Patrick O'Toole, itinerant racetrack bookmaker and Constance Jane Eliot Ferguson who had wavy black hair, quick eyes and a determination to marry for money , his schooldays under the long shadow of Adolf Hitler, his years in the navy, his short-lived career as a cub reporter and the almost accidental audition at RADA that launched his career.

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Peter O'Toole's account of his early life - a childhood framed by Captain Patrick O'Toole, itinerant racetrack bookmaker and Constance Jane Eliot Ferguson who had wavy black hair, quick eyes and a determination to marry for money , his schooldays under the long shadow of Adolf Hitler, his years in the navy, his short-lived career as a cub reporter and the almost accidental audition at RADA that launched his career.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 217
Edition: On Demand
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 30 Jan 2014
ISBN 10: 1447271319
ISBN 13: 9781447271314
Book Overview: The first volume of Peter O'Toole's autobiography

Media Reviews

Reading this book, I was given the impression that the author was writing while jumping on a trampoline, soaring, singing, flying, with horizontal and vertical landings, and occasionally standing still and quietly mewling... A vastly entertaining, sometimes exasperating, highly literate comic work. -- Malachy McCourt The New York Times Book Review

Author Bio

Born in Ireland in 1932, Peter O'Toole was one of Hollywood's most highly regarded actors. O'Toole's rise to stardom began in 1962, when he played T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia. He went on to appear in such critically heralded films as Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968). Later successes include My Favorite Year (1982) and Venus (2006). He wrote two volumes of memoirs, Loitering With Intent: The Child and Loitering With Intent: The Apprentice. After battling a long illness, O'Toole died peacefully at the age of 81 in a London hospital on 14 December 2013.