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So Farewell Then: The Biography of Peter Cook
 
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So Farewell Then: The Biography of Peter Cook (Paperback)
by Wendy E. Cook (Author)
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Product details
  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Harper (2 April 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007228945
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007228942
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 314,507 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Product Description
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'Never in the history of Big Brother has one fella won so many
hearts.'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Synopsis
The most intimate portrait of Peter Cook to date, Cook's first wife writes of her life with Britain's most ingenious and innovative comedian, and offering a side of him few have ever seen. 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. 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. Putting aside 30 years of discretion about her life with the comedian, Wendy decided to break her long silence to set down her memories. Comprised of personal anecdote, musings of intimate friends, from Alan Bennett to Jonathan Miller to Paul McCartney, and exclusive photography.

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