Peter O'Toole SIGNED Autobio Movie Stage Actor Lawrence of Arabia Becket

by Peter O'Toole

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Loitering with Intent by Peter O'Toole copyright 1992. This book with dustjacket is in very good condition - Dustjacket is in very good condition with no wear - book have no torn or missing pages nor writing . ......corner page has moisture stain (see photos) Signed on title page "For Claire Peter O'Toole" O'Toole chronicles his adolescent and young-adult years in a high style, full of bombast and invention. The narrative is not chronological; it is as idiosyncratic as its author. But it all has to do with his training for the person he became. So he reflects on adolescent experiences at St. Anne's Catholic School, with Mr. Peejay as teacher and mentor; O'Liver, the young friend who saw him through learning to swim and surfaces at odd junctures in the narrative; Donal MacBruin, the renowned piper who taught him to play the pipes and to dance; the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, where Nell Carter, the drama teacher, and Clifford Turner, the voice teacher, were conduits to the world of his hero, his icon, Edmund Kean; and his young peers at the Royal Academy, including Albert Finney; then back to his youth with Hooky, Roly, and Willis, buddies who swim the murky, filthy canal on dares; Burly and Stringy, the toughs he plays rugby with ("Which on yeez Tooler?" ); Joyce Carey, the grand old actress who taught him the benefits of skulking, preferably in a pub, after a bad performance. It's all so brave and chipper, "give us a gaze of your wise big blue eyes." Like Shakespeare's Ha

• Year: 1992
• Condition: Good

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