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  1. My Reading Life by Pat Conroy, 2010-11-02
  2. South of Broad: A Novel by Pat Conroy, 2010-05-04
  3. The Lords of Discipline: A Novel by Pat Conroy, 2002-10
  4. The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes and Stories of My Life by Pat Conroy, 2009-08-11
  5. My Losing Season: A Memoir by Pat Conroy, 2003-08-26
  6. The Great Santini: A Novel by Pat Conroy, 2002-10
  7. The Water Is Wide: A Memoir by Pat Conroy, 2002-10
  8. The Prince of Tides: A Novel by Pat Conroy, 2002-10
  9. Beach Music: A Novel by Pat Conroy, 2002-03
  10. THE BOO. by Pat. Conroy, 1996-01-01
  11. The Pat Conroy Trade Paperback Boxed Set by Pat Conroy, 2002-10-01
  12. Fripp Island: A History by Page Putnam Miller, 2006-10-01
  13. The Pat Conroy Cookbook
  14. South of Broad [DECKLE EDGE] by Pat Conroy,

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Pat Conroy. And in his own voice we see the young Pat Conroy walk from his life as an athlete to become the writer the world now knows him to be.
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The Story Behind My Losing Season "I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one.” "There was a time in my life when I walked through the world known to myself and to others as an athlete. It was part of my own definition of who I was and certainly the part I most respected. When I was a young man I was well-built and agile and ready for the rough and tumble of games, and athletics provided the single outlet for a repressed and preternaturally shy boy to express himself in public…I lost myself in the beauty of sport and made my family proud, while passing through the silent eye of the storm that was my childhood.” In My Losing Season Pat Conroy has written an American classic about young men and the bonds they form, about losing and the lessons it imparts, about finding one’s voice and one’s self in the midst of defeat. And in his own voice we see the young Pat Conroy walk from his life as an athlete to become the writer the world now knows him to be. Pat Conroy is the best-selling author of The Water is Wide The Great Santini The Lords of Discipline The Prince of Tides , and Beach Music . He lives in South Carolina with his wife Cassandra King Pat and Sandra with their great friends Zoe and Alex Sanders , candidate for the U.S. Senate, at a book signing for

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Pat Conroy. The Story Behind. My Losing Season. " I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one.. " There was a time in my life when I walked through the world known to myself and to others
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The Story Behind My Losing Season "I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one.” "There was a time in my life when I walked through the world known to myself and to others as an athlete. It was part of my own definition of who I was and certainly the part I most respected. When I was a young man I was well-built and agile and ready for the rough and tumble of games, and athletics provided the single outlet for a repressed and preternaturally shy boy to express himself in public…I lost myself in the beauty of sport and made my family proud, while passing through the silent eye of the storm that was my childhood.” In My Losing Season Pat Conroy has written an American classic about young men and the bonds they form, about losing and the lessons it imparts, about finding one’s voice and one’s self in the midst of defeat. And in his own voice we see the young Pat Conroy walk from his life as an athlete to become the writer the world now knows him to be. Pat Conroy is the best-selling author of The Water is Wide The Great Santini The Lords of Discipline The Prince of Tides , and Beach Music . He lives in South Carolina with his wife Cassandra King Pat and Sandra with their great friends Zoe and Alex Sanders , candidate for the U.S. Senate, at a book signing for

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    “Savannah” (“The prince of Tides”, 1986)
    Gyldendal : 1987
    Gyldendals Bogklub, i.e.2.udg., 2 bind : 1988
    Gyldendals Paperbacks, 3. udg. : 1989, 1990(2-3)
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    Gyldendals Paperbacks, 6.udg. : 1992, 1994(6-7)
    Gyldendals Bogklubber, 3. bogklubudg. : 1998 “Beach Music : roman” (“Beach Music”), 2 bind
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    Gyldendals Bogklubber : 1996 Gyldendals Paperbacks : 1997 kilder: Dansk Bogfortegnelse, 1965- 1. udg., lavet af Per Kjær Fredborg, 2. juli 1990

    11. LESELUST Pat Conroy - Der Große Santini *** Literatur Aus Den USA - Südstaaten
    S¼dstaatenroman. Rezension von Daniela Ecker in Leselust.
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    LESELUST eigene Meinung schreiben Pat Conroy - Der große Santini
    Roman. Bastei Lübbe, 704 Seiten, ISBN: 3-404-11747-6
    Ersch. 1976 unter dem Titel "The Great Santini"
    Deutsch 1989
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    Pat Conroy stammt aus South Carolina und lebt zur Zeit in Rom.
    Weitere Titel: Der große Santini / Die Herren der Insel / Beach Music
    Bull Meecham, nach eigener Aussage der verdammt beste Kampfpilot auf Erden, kehrt nach einem Jahr in Europa wieder nach USA zurück.
    Ein Jahr lang hatten seine Frau Lilian, die Kinder Ben, Mary-Anne, Matt und Karen bei der Großmutter in Atlanta gelebt, ohne den Einfluss der Marines. Doch Bull ist nach Revenge, South Carolina, versetzt worden - also zieht die Familie zum vierten Mal in vier Jahren um.
    Bull führt ein sehr hartes Regime in seiner Familie. Kinder von Marines, ist seine Meinung, müssen in allem die Besten sein, immer diszipliniert und haben sich vor allem seinem absoluten Gehorsamkeitsanspruch zu unterwerfen. Jedes der Kinder versucht damit auf seine Weise fertig zu werden. Ben, der Älteste, bemüht sich meist, einfach nicht anzuecken - und ist trotzdem vom Wunsch beseelt, den Vater irgendwann mal zu besiegen. Er ist es auch, der die Fäuste am ehesten zu spüren bekommt.
    Mary-Anne leidet schwer darunter, nicht die unglaubliche Südstaaten-Schönheit der Mutter geerbt zu haben. Ihre Waffe gegen den Despoten ist ihr loses Mundwerk.

    12. LESELUST Pat Conroy - Beach Musik *** Literatur Aus Den USA - Südstaaten - Lese
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    LESELUST eigene Meinung schreiben Pat Conroy - Beach Music. Der Gesang des Meeres
    Roman. Bastei Lübbe, 894 Seiten, ISBN: 340412801X
    Ersch. 1995 unter dem Titel "Beach Music"
    Deutsch 1995 von Edda Petri
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    Pat Conroy stammt aus South Carolina und lebt zur Zeit in Rom.
    Weitere Titel: Der große Santini / Die Herren der Insel / Beach Music
    Ein Jahr nachdem Jacks Frau Shyla Selbstmord begangen hatte, zieht er mit der kleinen Tochter Shyla nach Italien, um ein neues Leben zu beginnen. Und auch, um seine Tochter von den amerikanischen Südstaaten fernzuhalten, von seiner großen und chaotischen Familie - und von den Shylas Eltern, die ihm die Tochter wegnehmen wollten.
    Shylas Eltern hatten den Holocaust überlebt. Doch der Schrecken der Verfolgung, die Erinnerung an all die Greueltaten haben sie niemals losgelassen.
    Die Geschichten, die Shyla in ihrer Kindheit zu hören bekam, haben sich ihr tief eingebrannt - zu tief, bis sie eines Tages keinen Ausweg mehr sah.

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    When critics assess the works of best-selling author Pat Conroy , they inevitably note his ability to explore the great themes of life - the struggle for equality and justice, the value of intellectual freedom, and the necessity for individual autonomy. They note, as well, his remarkable ability to evoke feelings that many of us share. Whether it is the racism found in The Water is Wide , the tyranny of authority in The Great Santini , the coexistence of honor and brutality in The Lords of Discipline , or the cruelty and betrayal exposed in The Prince of Tides , Pat Conroy does not flinch from writing about the evils and harsh realities of life. Yet, despite a past that includes the most ruthless of personal experiences, his work resonates with an affirmation of life and a quest for the liberation of truth. As a writer, he has reached out to all of us and given a voice to the pain and hope that we share.

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    Pat Conroy was born on October 26, 1945, in Atlanta, Georgia, to a young career military officer from Chicago and a Southern beauty from Alabama, whom Pat often credits for his love of language. He was the first of seven children. His father was a violent and abusive man, a man whose biggest mistake, Conroy once said, was allowing a novelist to grow up in his home, a novelist “who remembered every single violent act…my father’s violence is the central fact of my art and my life.” Since the family had to move many times to different military bases around the South, Pat changed schools frequently, finally attending the Citadel Military Academy in Charleston, South Carolina, upon his father’s insistence. While still a student, he wrote and then published his first book, The Boo a tribute to a beloved teacher. After graduation, Conroy taught English in Beaufort, where he met and married a young woman with two children, a widow of the Vietnam War. He then accepted a job teaching underprivileged children in a one-room schoolhouse on Daufuskie Island, a remote island off the South Carolina shore. After a year, Pat was fired for his unconventional teaching practices—such as his unwillingness to allow corporal punishment of his students—and for his general lack of respect for the school’s administration. Conroy evened the score when he exposed the racism and appalling conditions his students endured with the publication of

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    Browse for author " Pat Conroy " matched 19 titles. Sometimes it pays off to expand your search to view all available copies of books matching your search terms. Page of 1 sort results by Top Selling Title Author Used Price New Price My Losing Season more books like this by Conroy, Pat An intensely personal account of the season of '67 when Pat Conroy played basketball at the Citadel, the military college in Charleston, South Carolina, My Losing Season is no ordinary sporting memoir. It is an American classic of young men, their dreams, their ambitions, the friendships they forged, and the losses they suffered, both on and off... buy used: from buy new: from Beach Music more books like this by Conroy, Pat

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    MATTHEW BUDMAN Bulletin Correspondent Remember how the narrator of "The Prince of Tides decides to leave his lover, a Jewish psychiatrist in New York named Susan Lowenstein, and return to his Southern wife? One reason the book's conclusion may not ring quite true is that, in real life, Conroy did leave his wife for Lowenstein's real-life equivalent. Since then, it seems, Conroy a South Carolina Catholic has remained fascinated by things Jewish, an interest that brings a certain depth to his new novel, "Beach Music." As in his 1980 novel "The Lords of Discipline," the Vietnam War looms ominously, but so does the Holocaust. The author was in the Bay Area recently to discuss "Beach Music" at a CenterStage production at the Marin Jewish Community Center's Swig Field. In a way, cracking open a new Conroy novel is like sitting down to watch a new Woody Allen film. Each time, Allen gives his character a new name, job, relationship, plot...and yet he's still the same bespectacled Jewish New York egghead. Similarly, Conroy's protagonists vary in age and heightand little else. In his first two books, both nonfiction, he introduced us to a prickly South Carolina liberal with a drawerful of ready quips, a combative edge, and dynamic and troubled friends and relatives. After 1972's dazzling "The Water Is Wide," he switched to fiction, but this likable son of the South has remained at the center of his books, instantly recognizable, a scarred man who uses "laughter as both a weapon and a vaccine."

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    Pat Conroy was born on October 26, 1945, in Atlanta, Georgia, to a young career military officer from Chicago and a Southern beauty from Alabama, whom Pat often credits for his love of language. He was the first of seven children.
    Since the family had to move many times to different military bases around the South, Pat changed schools frequently, finally attending the Citadel Military Academy in Charleston, South Carolina, upon his father's insistence. While still a student, he wrote and then published his first book, THE BOO, a tribute to a beloved teacher.
    After graduation, Conroy taught English in Beaufort, where he met and married a young woman with two children, a widow of the Vietnam War. He then accepted a job teaching underprivileged children in a one-room schoolhouse on Daufuskie Island, a remote island off the South Carolina shore. After a year, Pat was fired for his unconventional teaching practicessuch as his unwillingness to allow corporal punishment of his studentsand for his general lack of respect for the school's administration. Conroy evened the score when he exposed the racism and appalling conditions his students endured with publication of THE WATER IS WIDE in 1972. The book won Conroy a humanitarian award from the National Education Association and was made into the feature film Conrack , starring Jon Voight.

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    MY LOSING SEASON pat conroy Nan A. Talese Memoir ISBN 0385489129. Read an Excerpt. This was the only type of sports book pat conroy could write.
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    MY LOSING SEASON is a sports memoir as honest and heartbreaking as a double overtime loss to a hated rival.
    It is also the only memoir that deals directly with the true story - step by step, game by game - of an NCAA Division I basketball team that won a mere eight games (out of 25). This is counterintuitive for a sports book. You see, we are supposed to remember those athletes and teams that never lose, the Knute Rocknes, not the Bill Buckners. Yet both examples offer powerful stories. This was the only type of sports book Pat Conroy could write. In a moment of kismet while on the book tour for BEACH MUSIC, Conroy reconnected with his former teammate John DeBrosse. They found themselves replaying the minutiae of a loss on a basketball court 30 years ago. Both men were marked by that losing season. This encounter served as catalyst to search for meaning from this lost season. Conroy devoted two years to pouring through old newspaper clips, interviewing former teammates and diving into his own memories to reignite the fires of regret and disappointment. He recalls that the best memories his teammates had from the 1966-67 Citadel Bulldogs Varsity Basketball team were of the great players they went up against. They remember the Michael Jordans - or in this case the Johnny Moates. Conroy writes, "In every home I entered as I reconstituted my team, I found instead of memory scar tissue and nerve damage. There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous. But there is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss."

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