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Jan 1, 2013 · In this powerful and intimate memoir, the beloved bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and his father, the inspiration for The Great Santini, find some common ground at long last. Pat Conroy's father, Donald Patrick Conroy, was a towering figure in his son's life.
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Oct 29, 2013 · The Death of Santini is a heart-wrenching act of reckoning whose ultimate conclusion is that love can soften even the meanest of men, lending significance to the oft-quoted line from Pat’s novel The Prince of Tides: “In families there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.”
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The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son is a 2013 memoir written by Pat Conroy. It complements the 1976 novel The Great Santini which was adapted into a 1979 film of the same name. Overview
Nov 15, 2013 · It’s misleading because “The Death of Santini” is more the story of a son who turns the people closest to him into literary conceits, seeing them in terms of the vivid, florid characters...
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In this powerful and intimate memoir, the beloved bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and his father, the inspiration for The Great Santini, find some common ground at long last. Pat Conroy’s father, Donald Patrick Conroy, was a towering figure in his son’s life. The Marine Corps fighter pilot was often brutal, cruel, and violent; as Pat says...
“An emotionally difficult journey that should lend fans of Conroy’s fiction an insightful back story to his richly imagined characters. One of the most widely read authors from the American South puts his demons to bed at long last. One doesn’t have to have read The Great Santini to know that Pat Conroy was deeply scarred by his childhood. It is th...
“Conroy is a master of language.” The Atlanta Journal “Conroy is an immensely gifted stylist….No one can describe a tide or a sunset with his lyricism and exactitude.” Chris Bohjalian, The Washington Post “Conroy writes with a momentum that’s impossible to resist.” People “Conroy takes aim at our darkest emotions, lets the arrow fly and hits a bull...
Pat Conroy, the author of The Great Santini, a novel based on his abusive father, Donald Patrick Conroy, a Marine Corps fighter pilot, revisits his childhood trauma and their reconciliation in this memoir. He explores the legacy of violence, love, and forgiveness in his family and his own life.
Nov 21, 2019 · A powerful and intimate memoir by the beloved best-selling author of The Prince of Tides about his father, the inspiration for The Great Santini, and a re-affirmation that love can conquer even the meanest of men
The Death of Santini is a heart-wrenching act of reckoning whose ultimate conclusion is that love can soften even the meanest of men, lending significance to the oft-quoted line from Pat’s novel The Prince of Tides: “In families there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.”
