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So Farewell Then: The Biography of Peter Cook by Cook, Wendy E. Hardback Book
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- Title
- So Farewell Then: The Biography of Peter Cook
- ISBN
- 0007228937
- EAN
- 9780007228935
- Type
- Hardback
- Binding
- Hardback
- Date of Publication
- 2006-10-02
- Publication Name
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- Release Title
- So Farewell Then: The Biography of Peter Cook
- Artist
- Cook, Wendy E.
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- Colour
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- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- So Farewell Then: the Biography of Peter Cook
- Item Height
- 240mm
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Topic
- Television
- Item Width
- 159mm
- Item Weight
- 688g
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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To his many fans, Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man they never met. Over a decade since his untimely death, his reputation as one of Britain's greatest comics shows no sign of shrinking. His first wife talks about a side of Peter Cook that few have ever seen and no one has made public. Peter Cook was one of the most significant influences on British comedy of the last 50 years. Caustic, cruel but genuinely and effortlessly witty, Cook was one of the prime architects of the satire boom of the sixties, achieving fame first in the revue Beyond The Fringe with Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller, then in the television comedy sketch show Not Only But Also , starring himself and Moore. The responsibility of being regarded as one of the wittiest men of his generation and the comic guru to the nation could have weighed heavily upon Peter Cook's shoulders. But the one thing Cook always refused adamantly to do was to take life, himself or his career seriously. Wendy Cook was a teenage art student when she first met the handsome Cambridge undergraduate in the early sixties. They married soon after and together founded the Establishment clubs in London and New York, and financed the satirical magazine Private Eye . Wendy bore Peter his only children and they lived together during the most explosive time in Peter's amazing career. But the price of this stratospheric rise was high. 'I felt eventually I had to go my own way rather than stay with somebody who was that nihilistic. Alcohol stokes up the demons and a completely different person starts to emerge. He did know how to behave well, but it rotted into something else. At a certain point I thought, This will be the end of me if I don't leave now. ' Finally Wendy took her daughters to Majorca to live on a farm and the couple eventually divorced a few years later in 1971. Now, putting aside 30 years of discretion about her life with the comedian, Wendy has decided to break her long silence to set down her memories in this long-awaited biography.
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HarperCollins
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9780007228935
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Book Title
So Farewell Then: the Biography of Peter Cook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Television
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
400 Pages
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Item Height
240mm
Item Width
159mm
Item Weight
688g
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United Kingdom
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