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In this memoir of his early years, O'Toole explores three definitive influences on his young life: his father, Pop or Captain Pat O'Toole, the itinerant bookie; his mother, Constance Jane Ferguson, of the quick eyes and wavy black hair; and finally Adolf Hittler, whose image created an intense interest in the boy that only deepeded as O'Toole discovered he would have no childhood in wartime England. Despite the unhappiness of the war years, the overall impression left by this original and captivating book is one of the ebullience and charm of the young man who eventually makes his way to London to live the life of a "scholar bohemian" and accidentally finds himself falling into the world of theater.