Pat conroy author (8 risultati)

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Later Printing. Used Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Later Printing. Signed. No additional standard domestic postage for this heavy book. Fifth printing. Inscribed by Stitt on the half-title page. Light wear to tips, corners, and edges of the jacket; a few pages from the endpaper through page XI of the foreword have tiny bent corners. ".Gourmet magazine had named Highlands Bar and Grill the fifth best restaurant in the nation. In the same year Frank won a James beard award as Best Chef of the Southeast. The inimitable R. W. "Johnny" Apple Jr. of the New York Times made one of his baptismal visits to the restaurant and left shouting kudos and benediction like all the rest of us."--from the foreword.Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility.…

Hardcover. Octavo, 174 pages. In Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is white with blue print. Dust jacket in mylar. Price unclipped: "$22.95". Boards in blue cloth. Light blemish to front panel. Text block has spotting to edges. Illustrated: b&w drawings, photographs. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column P. 1391572. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reprint edition. 1456 pages. 6.50x4.25x2.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 245 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is royal blue with white lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering and has mild shelving wear along rear head joint. Boards have mild shelving wear along rear head joint. Signed flat by Katherine Clark [author] and Pat Conroy [foreword] on title page. Shelved in hallway. 1389368. Special Collections.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN 0523480210. Mass Market Paperback First Pinnacle Books PrintingFrom November 1981 as stated on the copyright page. Very Good to Near Fine condition. Tight bright attractive copy with no markings to the book. Bright uncreased covers and just some very slight spine creasing. A beautiful copy. No Signature.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. [12], 628 pages. Note to the Reader. Author signature is on a separate insert. PAT CONROY is the author of five previous books: The Boo, The Water Is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides, the last four of which were made into feature films. Donald Patrick Conroy (October 26, 1945 - March 4, 2016) was an American author who wrote several acclaimed novels and memoirs; his books The Water is Wide, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini were made into films, the last two being nominated for Oscars. As a graduate of The Citadel's Corps of Cadets, his experiences at The Citadel provided the basis for two of his best-known works, the novel The Lords of Discipline and the memoir My Losing Season. The latter details his senior year on the school's underdog basketball team, which won the longest game in the history of Southern Conference basketball against rival Virginia Military Institute. The main character of The Great Santini is Marine fighter pilot Colonel "Bull" Meecham, who dominates and terrorizes his family. The character is based on Conroy's father Donald. In 1995, Conroy published Beach Music, a novel about an American expatriate living in Rome who returns to South Carolina upon news of his mother's terminal illness. The story reveals his attempt to confront personal demons, including the suicide of his wife, the subsequent custody battle with his in-laws over their daughter, and the attempt by a film-making friend to rekindle old friendships which were compromised during the days of the Vietnam War. Pat Conroy is without doubt America's favorite storyteller, a writer who portrays the anguished truth of the human heart and the painful secrets of families in richly lyrical prose and unforgettable narratives. Now, in Beach Music, he tells of the dark memories that haunt generations, in a story that spans South Carolina and Rome and reaches back into the unutterable terrors of the Holocaust. Beach Music is about Jack McCall, an American living in Rome with his young daughter, trying to find peace after the recent trauma of his wife's suicide. But his solitude is disturbed by the appearance of his sister-in-law, who begs him to return home, and of two school friends asking for his help in tracking down another classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protester and never resurfaced. These requests launch Jack on a journey that encompasses the past and the present in both Europe and the American South, and that leads him to shocking--and ultimately liberating--truths. Told with deep feeling and trademark Conroy humor, Beach Music is powerful and compulsively readable. It is another masterpiece in the legendary list of classics that his body of work has already become. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: Booksellers and other vitally interested parties can quit holding their collective breath: Conroy has not lost his touch. His storytelling powers have not failed; neither has his poetic skill with words, nor his vivid imagination. His long-awaited sixth book sings with the familiar elegiac Southern cadences, his prose is sweepingly lyrical, unabashedly sentimental. The hero, Jack McCall, describes himself as a man on the run from his past: the suicide of his beloved wife; the destructive influence of his icy, manipulative mother and mean, bullying, alcoholic father; the betrayal of his youthful ideals, his boyhood friends. There is, of course, the familiar theme of dysfunctional families; in addition to the McCalls, two other family units vie for the dubious title of most messed-up. But Conroy has added a new element here, by dramatizing his conviction that the `unbearable wound' of Vietnam was our country's spiritual Holocaust. Conroy takes on these emotionally laden issues in chapters so direct and powerful that readers will be moved by his intimacy with the material, and perhaps astonished by his authority over it. Conroy meshes complex plot lines with ease. Joyce Ravid (Author photograph) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: near fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [12], 499pp. Blue boards over black cloth. The first printing, with a full number line on copyright page. One leaf (p. 293/294) with a ripple through bottom margin, possibly a problem during the printing process. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $12.95 retail price on front flap, two reviews on the rear panel, touch of wear to the spine. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Laura, Who is lovely and bright and has great taste in parents. Pat Conroy / Oct 15, 1980." Set at the fictional Carolina Military Institute in Charleston, the novel follows senior cadet Will McLean as he confronts the school's secretive culture. The first edition, first printing of The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy, inscribed by the author. (illustratore). Signed.…