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Keeping Tom Nice [Paperback]

Lucy Gannon
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  • Paperback: 85 pages
  • Publisher: Josef Weinberger Plays (15 Jun 1990)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 085676146X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0856761461
  • Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 19.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 66,894 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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A play which illustrates an uncompromising exploration of attitudes towards people with disbilities and the changing nature of the caring professions. Moreover it is a rich and compelling examination of a family disintegrating under increasing presure. The main character is Tom who is approaching his twenty fifth birthday. He is severely handicapped and in spite of growing intervention from the social services has lived in the care of his parents who have devoted their lives to him.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Keeping Tom Nice 18 April 2003
By Baps
I really enjoyed this! It is great for actors looking for monologues within the play and it is really one for the heart. It also demonstrates the way views have changed on people with disabilities and what rights they have. It is an uncomprimising exploration of attitudes towards the disabled and how society is changing with their attitudes towards people with disabilities
Tom is approaching his twenty fifth birthday. He is serverly handicapped and despite intervetion from social services has lived in the care of his parents, who have devoted their lives to him But the unrelenting challenge of keeping up normal appearances while trying to care for Tom's every need reduces the family to breaking point.
My favourite character was Tom's sister Charlie along with Steven the social worker as they challenged old fashioned attitudes towards Tom. To sum it up the play is definitely painful, witty and moving.
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5.0 out of 5 stars should be on every social care reading list 27 April 2013
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this wonderful book highlights the experiences of caring for someone with profound disabilities, it is fiction, but speaks the truth.
It is a play but very readable
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4.0 out of 5 stars Keeping Tom Nice 30 Nov 2007
By Gina C
I loved this play. It was so emotional and a great insight to the caring profession aswell as how families cope. I couldn't put the book down and read it all within an hour!
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