Loitering With Intent: The Child - Softcover

O'Toole, Peter

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Synopsis

In the first volume of his acclaimed memoirs, the actor narrates his childhood as the son of a bookmaker in a bleak industrial slum in England during World War II and his stints as a journalist and a sailor. Reprint. NYT.

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About the Author

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). After battling a long illness, O'Toole died peacefully at the age of 81 in a London hospital on 14 December 2013.

Review

This great, wild, cacophonous broth of an aging lad whose face has illuminated a million screens in roles that have thrilled us by their infinite variety -- yes, is it not he who wants us to know about his weird, wonderful, wacky, wild and wuthering childhood back there in England, with the bombs cascading down and Herr Hitler on his throne of evil intent? Ah, what a saga he has to spin, he has, oh yes, and how he tells it! I found myself at the end of this brief memoir wanting to know much, much more about the author and his family and his work -- The New York Times Book Review, William Murray

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