Our Prince of Scribes

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082035449X
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Our Prince of Scribes by : Nicole Seitz

Download or read book Our Prince of Scribes written by Nicole Seitz and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed writers, family, friends, and more pay homage to the celebrated Southern author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini. New York Times–bestselling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year career. In sharing their stories of Conroy, his fellow writers honor his memory and advance our shared understanding of his lasting impact on literary life in and well beyond the American South. Conroy’s fellowship drew from all walks of life. His relationships were complicated, and people and places he thought he’d left behind often circled back to him at crucial moments. The pantheon of contributors includes Rick Bragg, Kathleen Parker, Barbra Streisand, Janis Ian, Anthony Grooms, Mary Hood, Nikky Finney, Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart, Ron Rash, Sandra Brown, and Mary Alice Monroe; Conroy biographers Katherine Clark and Catherine Seltzer; his longtime friends; Pat’s students Sallie Ann Robinson and Valerie Sayers; members of the Conroy family; and many more. Each author in this collection shares a slightly different view of Conroy. Through their voices, a multifaceted portrait of him comes to life and sheds new light on who he was. Loosely following Conroy’s own chronology, the essays herewith wind through his river of a story, stopping at important ports of call. Cities he called home and longed to visit, along with each book he birthed, become characters that are as equally important as the people he touched along the way.

Our Prince of Scribes

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820354481
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Our Prince of Scribes by : Nicole A. Seitz

Download or read book Our Prince of Scribes written by Nicole A. Seitz and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Writer Pat Conroy passed away in 2016 at age 70. He was the author of The Water is Wide, The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides, and Beach Music, among other works. Several of his books have been made into movies starring actors including Robert Duvall, Barbra Streisand, and Jon Voight. This book collects in one volume seventy entries from people who all knew a different facet of Pat Conroy: writers, poets, editors, musicians, friends, classmates. Contributors include Rick Bragg, Kathleen Parker, Nikky Finney, Mary Alice Monroe, Dori Sanders, Ron Rash, Janis Ian, Tony Grooms, Patti Callahan Henry, Connie May Fowler, Sandra Brown, Jonathan Carroll, Jonathan Galassi, Nathalie Dupree, and Wendell Minor, as well as several members of the Conroy family. Additionally, the book includes a gallery of photos of Conroy, many never seen by the public before"--

The Lost Prince

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1640091491
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Prince written by Michael Mewshaw and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In The Lost Prince Michael Mewshaw sets down one of the most gripping stories of friendship I’ve ever read.” —Daniel Menaker, author of My Mistake: A Memoir Pat Conroy was America’s poet laureate of family dysfunction. A larger–than–life character and the author of such classics as The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, Conroy was remembered by everybody for his energy, his exuberance, and his self–lacerating humor. Michael Mewshaw’s The Lost Prince is an intimate memoir of his friendship with Pat Conroy, one that involves their families and those days in Rome when they were both young—when Conroy went from being a popular regional writer to an international bestseller. Family snapshots beautifully illustrate that time. Shortly before his forty–ninth birthday, Conroy telephoned Mewshaw to ask a terrible favor. With great reluctance, Mewshaw did as he was asked—and never saw Pat Conroy again. Although they never managed to reconcile their differences completely, Conroy later urged Mewshaw to write about “me and you and what happened . . . i know it would cause much pain to both of us. but here is what that story has that none of your others have.” The Lost Prince is Mewshaw’s fulfillment of a promise.

The Age of Infidelity and Other Stories

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Publisher : Slant
ISBN 13 : 1725253739
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Book Synopsis The Age of Infidelity and Other Stories by : Valerie Sayers

Download or read book The Age of Infidelity and Other Stories written by Valerie Sayers and published by Slant. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of Muriel Spark and Walker Percy, The Age of Infidelity's eleven stories embrace the comic, the absurd, and the dead serious. Faithless parents betray their children, the young betray the old, and lovers betray each other--but somehow these characters cling to hope. Aging white cheerleaders shout through an online megaphone, remembering a time when racial equality seemed almost possible; a teenager endures her father's abandonment as her mother's psychotic episodes pick up pace; an old couple on the lam from the Constitutional Guard of the future hides out in a garage reminiscent of our consumerist past. In an age many call post-religious, these characters want to believe in something, but they're not always sure what that something is. Set in landscapes from the small-town South to New York City, from a parched Midwest to a deserted Dublin, these stories time-travel from our Jim Crow past to an imagined future of warehouses for the aged where robots do the nursing. With what the Washington Post describes as her ""distinctive brutal elegance,"" Valerie Sayers writes playfully, powerfully, and musically. These stories form an album riffing on our age, the Age of Infidelity.

The Lords of Discipline

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063323656
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book The Lords of Discipline written by Pat Conroy and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Lords of Discipline is, simply, an American classic.” -- Larry King The Lords of Discipline is a novel about coming of age, brotherhood, betrayal, and a man’s forging of his own personal code of honor. Will McLean, a senior on the cadets’ honor court, is an outsider by nature: a basketball star at a school that prizes military prowess above athletics, a military man in training who dares to question the escalating Vietnam war. And yet his greatest struggle will be with the corrupt institution of which he is a part. Rich in humor and suspense, abounding in a rare honesty and generosity of feeling, this novel established Pat Conroy as one of the strongest fictional voices in a generation. “A work of enormous power, passion, humor, and wisdom.” – Washington Star “God preserve Pat Conroy.” – Boston Globe

Tell Me a Story

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062905635
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Book Synopsis Tell Me a Story by : Cassandra King Conroy

Download or read book Tell Me a Story written by Cassandra King Conroy and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tell Me A Story is breathtakingly tender, heartbreakingly true...The best memoir I’ve read.” — Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House Reunion Bestselling author Cassandra King Conroy considers her life and the man she shared it with, paying tribute to her husband, Pat Conroy, the legendary figure of modern Southern literature. Cassandra King was leading a quiet life as a professor, divorced “Sunday wife” of a preacher, and debut novelist when she met Pat Conroy. Their friendship bloomed into a tentative, long-distance relationship. Pat and Cassandra ultimately married, ending Pat's long commutes from coastal South Carolina to her native Alabama. It was a union that would last eighteen years, until the beloved literary icon’s death from pancreatic cancer in 2016. In this poignant, intimate memoir, the woman he called King Ray looks back at her love affair with a natural-born storyteller whose lust for life was fueled by a passion for literature, food, and the Carolina Lowcountry that was his home. As she reflects on their relationship and the eighteen years they spent together, cut short by Pat’s passing at seventy, Cassandra reveals how the marshlands of the South Carolina Lowcountry ultimately cast their spell on her, too, and how she came to understand the convivial, generous, funny, and wounded flesh-and-blood man beneath the legend—her husband, the original Prince of Tides.

Understanding Pat Conroy

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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611175178
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Book Synopsis Understanding Pat Conroy by : Catherine Seltzer

Download or read book Understanding Pat Conroy written by Catherine Seltzer and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful look at the life and work of the extraordinary popular Southern writer. Pat Conroy’s novels and memoirs have indelibly shaped the image of the South in the American imagination. His writing has rendered the physical landscape of the South Carolina lowcountry familiar to legions of readers, and has staked out a more complex geography as well—one defined by domestic trauma, racial anxiety, religious uncertainty, and cultural ambivalence. In Understanding Pat Conroy, Catherine Seltzer engages in a sustained consideration of Conroy and his work. The study begins with a sketch of Conroy’s biography, which, while fascinating in its own right, is employed here to illuminate many of the motifs and characters that define his work and to locate him within southern literary tradition. Seltzer then explores each of Conroy’s major works, tracing the evolution of the themes within and among each of his novels, including The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, Beach Music, and South of Broad, and his memoirs, among them The Water Is Wide and My Losing Season. Seltzer’s insightful close readings of Conroy’s work are supplemented by interviews and archival material, shedding new light on the often-complex dynamics between text and context in Conroy’s oeuvre. More broadly, Understanding Pat Conroy explores the ways that Conroy delights in troubling the boundaries that circumscribe the literary establishment—and links his work to existing debates about the contemporary American canon.

The Best Cook in the World

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400032695
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Best Cook in the World by : Rick Bragg

Download or read book The Best Cook in the World written by Rick Bragg and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Part cookbook, part memoir, these “rollicking, poignant, sometimes hilarious tales” (USA Today) are the Pulitzer Prize-winner’s loving tribute to the South, his family and, especially, to his extraordinary mother. Here are irresistible stories and recipes from across generations. They come, skillet by skillet, from Bragg’s ancestors, from feasts and near famine, from funerals and celebrations, and from a thousand tales of family lore as rich and as sumptuous as the dishes they inspired. Deeply personal and unfailingly mouthwatering, The Best Cook in the World is a book to be savored.

Theologies of Terrain

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Publisher : Jasper Project
ISBN 13 : 9781942081142
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Theologies of Terrain written by Tim Conroy and published by Jasper Project. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first of Muddy Ford Press's Laureate Series, edited by Columbia, SC poet laureate Ed Madden, Tim Conroy writes of pain, loss, and going forward in beauty, and love. Conroy is a founding board member of the Pat Conroy Literary Center established in his brother's honor.

Prince of the Press

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300234902
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Prince of the Press by : Joshua Teplitsky

Download or read book Prince of the Press written by Joshua Teplitsky and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Oppenheim (1664-1736), chief rabbi of Prague in the early eighteenth century, built an unparalleled collection of Jewish books and manuscripts, all of which have survived and are housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. His remarkable collection testifies to the myriad connections Jews maintained with each other across political borders, and the contacts between Christians and Jews that books facilitated. From contact with the great courts of European nobility to the poor of Jerusalem, his family ties brought him into networks of power, prestige, and opportunity that extended across Europe and the Mediterranean basin. Containing works of law and literature alongside prayer and poetry, his library served rabbinic scholars and communal leaders, introduced old books to new readers, and functioned as a unique source of personal authority that gained him fame throughout Jewish society and beyond. The story of his life and library brings together culture, commerce, and politics, all filtered through this extraordinary collection. Based on the careful reconstruction of an archive that is still visited by scholars today, Joshua Teplitsky's book offers a window into the social life of Jewish books in early modern Europe.--Publisher's website.

Bookish Broads

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Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683359550
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Bookish Broads written by Lauren Marino and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boldly illustrated celebration of literary history’s most revolutionary, talented women writers Women have written some of our most extraordinary literary works while living in societies and cultures that tried to silence them. These women dared to put pen to paper to express the multifaceted female experience. In Bookish Broads, Lauren Marino celebrates fierce, trailblazing female writers, reworking the literary canon that has long failed to recognize the immense contributions of women. Featuring more than 50 brilliant bookish broads, Marino cleverly illuminates the lives of the greats as well as the literary talents history has wrongfully overlooked. Each intimate portrait delves into one woman’s works and is accompanied by vibrant illustrations depicting each literary legend in her element and time.

Baxter's Explore the Book

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Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310871395
Total Pages : 1846 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Baxter's Explore the Book written by J. Sidlow Baxter and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 1846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the Book is not a commentary with verse-by-verse annotations. Neither is it just a series of analyses and outlines. Rather, it is a complete Bible survey course. No one can finish this series of studies and remain unchanged. The reader will receive lifelong benefit and be enriched by these practical and understandable studies. Exposition, commentary, and practical application of the meaning and message of the Bible will be found throughout this giant volume. Bible students without any background in Bible study will find this book of immense help as will those who have spent much time studying the Scriptures, including pastors and teachers. Explore the Book is the result and culmination of a lifetime of dedicated Bible study and exposition on the part of Dr. Baxter. It shows throughout a deep awareness and appreciation of the grand themes of the gospel, as found from the opening book of the Bible through Revelation.

My Exaggerated Life

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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611179084
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book My Exaggerated Life written by and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An oral biography that reveals the Southern author's true voice Pat Conroy's memoirs and autobiographical novels contain a great deal about his life, but there is much he hasn't revealed to readers—until now. My Exaggerated Life is the product of a special collaboration between this great American author and oral biographer Katherine Clark, who recorded two hundred hours of conversations with Conroy before he passed away in 2016. In the spring and summer of 2014, the two spoke for an hour or more on the phone every day. No subject was off limits, including aspects of his tumultuous life he had never before revealed. This oral biography presents Conroy the man, as if speaking in person, in the colloquial voice familiar to family and friends. This voice is quite different from the authorial style found in his books, which are famous for their lyricism and poetic descriptions. Here Conroy is blunt, plainspoken, and uncommonly candid. While his novels are known for their tragic elements, this volume is suffused with Conroy's sense of humor, which he credits with saving his life on several occasions. The story Conroy offers here is about surviving and overcoming the childhood abuse and trauma that marked his life. He is frank about his emotional damage—the depression, the alcoholism, the divorces, and, above all, the crippling lack of self-esteem and self-confidence. He also sheds light on the forces that saved his life from ruin. The act of writing compelled Conroy to confront the painful truths about his past, while years of therapy with a clinical psychologist helped him achieve a greater sense of self-awareness and understanding. As Conroy recounts his time in Atlanta, Rome, and San Francisco, along with his many years in Beaufort, South Carolina, he portrays a journey full of struggles and suffering that culminated ultimately in redemption and triumph. Although he gained worldwide recognition for his writing, Conroy believed his greatest achievement was in successfully carving out a life filled with family and friends, as well as love and happiness. In the end he arrived at himself and found it was a good place to be.

After December

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Publisher : Chrysalis Press
ISBN 13 : 9781948604536
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book After December written by Kasie Whitener and published by Chrysalis Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five days. Four best friends who don't forgive him. Three women who can't stand him. Two parents who don't trust him. One unforgivable sin he can't hide from anymore. Brian is back in Virginia despite the craters he left at New Year's. Back to eat crow. To beg forgiveness.

What We Set in Motion

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Publisher : Novel Ideas by Sae
ISBN 13 : 9780996571906
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (719 download)

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Book Synopsis What We Set in Motion by : Stephanie Austin Edwards

Download or read book What We Set in Motion written by Stephanie Austin Edwards and published by Novel Ideas by Sae. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscent of Skeeter in The Help, Nadine Carter Barnwell, daughter of a prominent old Southern family, does not fit in with the person she is expected to become in the 1970's South. Her unflinching love of modern dance causes her to set her sights on more. But as her plans to study dance in New York City become more complicated and alienating, she must learn to accept that her choices in life, some in her control and some not, can eventually, by accepting all the joys and heartaches, surpass what she had set in motion - a fulfilling and happy life.

Gradle Bird

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Portrait of an American Businessman

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ISBN 13 : 9780881467154
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Portrait of an American Businessman written by Carl Ware and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: