No one who has read Pat Conroy's novels of family wounds and
healing can fail to be moved by their emotional appeal. But Conroy
is also a major contemporary American novelist who follows in the
tradition of Southern fiction established by William Faulkner and
Thomas Wolfe. This companion is the first book-length study of his
work. It explores the recurring motifs in his fiction and his
special writing talents as a prose stylist of uncommon distinction.
A separate chapter for "The Boo" and "The Water is Wide" and each
novel- "The Great Santini," "The Lords of Discipline," "The Prince
of Tides," and his most recent, "Beach Music"-provides a detailed
analysis of the books and the common threads that unite all the
novels.
A biographical chapter draws connections between Conroy's life
and the autobiographical nature of his fiction. A chapter on genre
traces Conroy's roots in southern fiction and shows how all the
novels fall into the rite-of-passage genre. Each novel is analyzed
for plot structure, characterization, thematic elements, and
Conroy's increasingly elaborate style and development as a master
of the art of the novel. In addition, Burns defines and applies a
variety of alternative approaches to the novels to widen the
reader's perspective. A complete bibliography of Conroy's fiction
as well as selected reviews and criticism complete the work.
Because of Pat Conroy's popularity among adults and teenagers, this
first critical work of a major contemporary American writer is a
necessary purchase by public and secondary school libraries.
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