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Conversations with the Conroys - Interviews with Pat Conroy and His Family (Paperback)
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Conversations with the Conroys - Interviews with Pat Conroy and His Family (Paperback)
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A New York Times best-selling author of eleven novels and memoirs,
Pat Conroy is one of America's most beloved storytellers and a
writer as synonymous with the South Carolina lowcountry as pluff
mud or the Palmetto tree. As Conroy's writings have been rooted in
autobiography more often than not, his readers have come to know
and appreciate much about the once-secret dark familial history
that has shaped Conroy's life and work. Conversations with the
Conroys opens further the discussion of the Conroy family through
five revealing interviews conducted in 2014 with Pat Conroy and
four of his six siblings: brothers Mike, Jim, and Tim and sister
Kathy. In confessional and often comic dialogs, the Conroys openly
discuss the perils of being raised by their larger-than-life
parents, USMC fighter pilot Col. Don Conroy (the Great Santini) and
southern belle Peggy Conroy (nee Peek); the complexities of having
their history of abuse made public by Pat's books; the tragic death
of their youngest brother, Tom; the chasm between them and their
sister Carol Ann; and the healing, redemptive embrace they have
come to find over time in one another. With good humor and
often-striking candor, these interviews capture the Conroys as
authentic and indeed proud South Carolinians, not always at ease
with their place in literary lore, but nonetheless deeply
supportive of Pat in his life and writing. Edited and introduced by
the Palmetto State's preeminent historian, Walter Edgar,
Conversations with the Conroys includes the first publications of
Pat Conroy's interview with Edgar as the keynote address of the
2014 One Book, One Columbia citywide ""big read"" program, the
unprecedented interview with the Conroy siblings for SCETV Radio's
Walter Edgar's Journal, the resulting live Conroy Family Roundtable
held at the 2014 South Carolina Book Festival, and a recent
interview in Charleston following Pat Conroy's induction into the
Citadel's Athletics Hall of Fame. This collection is augmented with
an afterword from National Book Award-winning poet Nikky Finney and
nearly fifty photographs, many from the Pat Conroy Archive in the
Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University
of South Carolina Libraries, and published here for the first time.
Through the resulting treasure trove of text and images, this
volume is as much a keepsake for Conroy's legion of devoted fans as
it is a wealth of insider information to broaden the understanding
of readers and researchers alike of the idiosyncratic world of Pat
Conroy and his family.
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