Pat Conroy
The first of seven children born into a military family, Pat Conroy was the victim of his father’s violence and abuse from a young age. The family moved constantly during his youth, and it was while attending Citadel Military Academy in Charleston, South Carolina, that Conroy wrote and published his first book, The Boo, about a favorite teacher.
Conroy became a teacher himself after graduation, taking a job in a one-room schoolhouse. The racism and deplorable conditions he witnessed became the subject of his next work, 1972’s The Water is Wide. The book earned wide critical praise and was made into a film starring John Voigt. His next book, The Great Santini, delved head first into Conroy’s past and examined the mix of love, anger and betrayal he felt toward his father. The book was widely acclaimed but came at great personal cost, his own divorce and that of his parents, as well as anger from many of his family members.
Pat Conroy continued to mine his past for his work, including 1980’s The Lords of Discipline about his years at Citadel and 1986’s The Prince of Tides, which remains Conroy’s most celebrated work with more five million copies in print. The novel was made into a film starring Barbra Streisand and Nick Nolte, who earned an Oscar nomination for his performance. Other bestsellers followed, including 1995’s Beach Music and the memoir My Losing Season.
Pat Conroy has been married three times. He lives in Fripp Island, South Carolina, with his current wife, author Cassandra King.
Conroy became a teacher himself after graduation, taking a job in a one-room schoolhouse. The racism and deplorable conditions he witnessed became the subject of his next work, 1972’s The Water is Wide. The book earned wide critical praise and was made into a film starring John Voigt. His next book, The Great Santini, delved head first into Conroy’s past and examined the mix of love, anger and betrayal he felt toward his father. The book was widely acclaimed but came at great personal cost, his own divorce and that of his parents, as well as anger from many of his family members.
Pat Conroy continued to mine his past for his work, including 1980’s The Lords of Discipline about his years at Citadel and 1986’s The Prince of Tides, which remains Conroy’s most celebrated work with more five million copies in print. The novel was made into a film starring Barbra Streisand and Nick Nolte, who earned an Oscar nomination for his performance. Other bestsellers followed, including 1995’s Beach Music and the memoir My Losing Season.
Pat Conroy has been married three times. He lives in Fripp Island, South Carolina, with his current wife, author Cassandra King.
The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shatte
The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families on Yamacraw island, America is a world away. For years the people here lived proudly from the sea, but now its waters are not safe. Waste from industry threatens their very existence–unless, somehow, they can learn a new life. But they will learn nothing without someone to teach them, and their school has no teacher.Here is PAT CONROY’S extraordinary drama based on his own experience–the true story of a man who gave a year of his life to an island a
ISBN: 0385514131, 9780385514132
Keywords: life, recipes, cookbook, conroy, pat
Pages: 304
Published: 2004
Keywords: life, recipes, cookbook, conroy, pat
Pages: 304
Published: 2004
