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Dear Tom
Tom Courtenay
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Description for Dear Tom
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'I suppose my luck is You, Ann and Dad and more so if I could really write.' Annie Eliza Courtenay Tom Courtenay was born in Hull in 1937 and brought up near the fish dock where his father worked. When he left home for university, his mother, Annie, wrote to him every week and when her letters became more searching and more intimate in response to Tom's unhappiness he kept every one, not knowing that after her early death they were to become his most treasured possession. Tom has selected the best of them ... Read more
'I suppose my luck is You, Ann and Dad and more so if I could really write.' Annie Eliza Courtenay Tom Courtenay was born in Hull in 1937 and brought up near the fish dock where his father worked. When he left home for university, his mother, Annie, wrote to him every week and when her letters became more searching and more intimate in response to Tom's unhappiness he kept every one, not knowing that after her early death they were to become his most treasured possession. Tom has selected the best of them ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552999267
SKU
V9780552999267
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Tom Courtenay
Tom Courtenay shot to fame in the early Sixties with a string of successful films - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Billy Liar and Dr Zhivago to name but a few. Since then he has worked mainly in the theatre, but has also starred in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, created the part of Norman ... Read more
Reviews for Dear Tom
'This is an unusual book. It brims with unabashed love.' Irish Independent 'What lifts DEAR TOM well above the usual run of thespian recollections is that it is also a posthumous collaboration with his mother Annie, the author of the letters which fill the second half of the book, and which provide a deeply touching counterpoint of unfulfilled ... Read more