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Hardcover Loitering with Intent: The Early Years Book

ISBN: 1562828231

ISBN13: 9781562828233

Loitering With Intent: The Child

(Book #1 in the Loitering with Intent Series)

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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. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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6 customer ratings | 5 reviews

Rated 5 stars
Loitering With Intent, The Best Autobiography, Ever!

I've always known Peter O'Toole is a great actor, but have been wonderfully surprised to learn he is also a great writer. His stories of his early life are priceless, and his use of the English language is poetic, humorous, and as descriptive as a master's painting. I had read this book when it first came out, delighted in re-reading it again recently, then went online and bought three additional copies to share my enjoyment...

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The classic and the modern.

A charming book; somehow surprising, as the critics say too:'a new face of O'TOOLE': indeed, the tone of the story is a very warm one, with romantic overtones in the first part, without any trace of cynism or sophistication; therfore, it is contrary to his style maybe, or, a better word is to his type of characters he plays as an actor-usually being in a delicate psychological or emotional status. PETER is creating his book...

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Rated 5 stars
Fascinating autobiographical account of O'Toole's childhood.

If you are remotely interested in Peter O'Toole, this is a great account of his childhood (most interestingly the three major influences in his life including Hitler) and how he first broke into acting (his jokes regarding Bernard Shaw are hilarious). There are some interesting annecdotes regarding the filming of `Rogue Male', his first film. His narrative style can a times be a bit disjointed, but the overall picture...

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A Sweeping Account of Ireland's Greatest Gift

RUSS SARTAIN (russ11@flash.net) From creeking through the old house and rediscovering a youth not forgotten, to vivid chidhood memories of Der Furer, this book could be describing many a wild haired youth in war time Ireland and England, but could never be retold with such passion and utter beauty as the great Peter O'toole did in this sweeping portrayal of his childhood. I was mesmorized on how vivid each memory was in his...

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What if James Joyce had gone into acting?

Perhaps I shouldn't give this a 10, unfamiliar as I am with the life-of-an-actor genre. But this is a wonderful book; O'Toole's intelligence and musical appreciation of and approach to prose shine in every line of every page. It is unfathomable to me how anyone as talented as O'Toole could possibly have chosen to go into *shudder* acting. Fair Warning: If you are the kind of movie fan who wants to know who slept with whom...

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