Peter Smart's Confessions
by Paul Bailey
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Peter Smart's mother, as a fellow actor points out to him, is a comic monster: Only Wagner could do her justice. She's matched by the eccentric, F. Leonard Cottle, a randy retired doctor, who employs Peter's mother as housekeeper, and introduces the boy Peter to the facts of life.Tags
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Paul Bailey has been the recipient of the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award, & the George Orwell Memorial Prize. He is the author of six novels, including "Old Soldiers" & "Gabriel's Lament", both short-listed for the Booker Prize. He lives in England. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Original publication date
- 1977
- People/Characters
- Peter Smart; Ellen Smart; Neville Drake; Granny Smart; F. Leonard Cottie; Gerald Smart (show all 10); Nancy Smart, neé Williams; Hilda Mosford; Winifred "Little Win" Lilian Desirée Collins; Stephen Smart
- Dedication
- For Anna Pugh
- First words
- He had succeeded at last.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)She cannot appreciate her wealth since--at the age of ninety-seven--she is all but gaga in a Home.
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- Languages
- English, Italian
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- 4
