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Loitering with Intent: The Child

by Peter O'Toole, Rick Kot · 1992

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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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medium · 224 pages

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