Tony Parsons





Tony Parsons

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in Romford, Essex, The United Kingdom
November 06, 1953

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Tony Parsons (born 6 November 1953) is a British journalist broadcaster and author. He began his career as a music journalist on the NME, writing about punk music. Later, he wrote for The Daily Telegraph, before going on to write his current column for the Daily Mirror. Parsons was for a time a regular guest on the BBC Two arts review programme The Late Show, and still appears infrequently on the successor Newsnight Review; he also briefly hosted a series on Channel 4 called Big Mouth.

He is the author of the multi-million selling novel, Man and Boy (1999). Parsons had written a number of novels including The Kids (1976), Platinum Logic (1981) and Limelight Blues (1983), before he found mainstream success by focussing on the tribulations of...more


Average rating: 3.42 · 12,959 ratings · 771 reviews · 35 distinct works · Similar authors
Man and Boy
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 6,055 ratings — published 1999 — 33 editions
Man and Wife
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3.19 of 5 stars 3.19 avg rating — 710 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions
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3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 369 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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3.03 of 5 stars 3.03 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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3.23 of 5 stars 3.23 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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“to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go”
Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

“Love means knowing when to let go.”
Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

“Cancer seems a high price to pay for an innocuous-looking habit. You get into smoking and you are robbed of the last 25 years of your life. Some cocky souls will say, 'Ah yes, but they are the worst 25 years.' Nobody feels like that in a cancer ward. There are no cocky souls in a cancer ward. But there's a lot of pain, not just of the excruciating physical kind that they shoot you full of morphine to smother. There are a lot of tears. All round. It is hard to say goodbye to the people you love. And it's scary. Cancer wards have a way of knocking the cockiness out of you. And for what? Another cigarette?”
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