Pat Conroy THE PRINCE OF TIDES First Edition
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Pat Conroy THE PRINCE OF TIDES First Edition
First USA Edition first print hardback of THE PRINCE OF TIDES by Pat Conroy and published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston in 1986. With a full numberline S 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the copyright page.The book is in good condition (Clean quarter bound in blue cloth over grey paper boards, front cover lettered in blind, gilt lettering on spine ) with some wear to the dust jacket which is price clipped (slight creasing to the edges, a 1 - 2 inch closed tear to the bottom corner of the front cover together with some creasing along the bottom edge). Internally, the pages are clean and tight. There is a previous owner's inscription on the front end paper and some foxing to the page ends.
The Prince of Tides is Pat Conroy's fifth book, and the third and most memorable novel. The basis of the hugely successful 1991 movie starring Nick Nolte, Barbara Streisand, and Blythe Danner, directed by Barbra Streisand.
"In his most brilliant and powerful novel, Pat conroy tells the story of Tom Wingo, his twin sister, Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the family into which they were born.
Set in New York City and the lowcountry of South Carolina, the novel opens when Tom, a high school football coach whose marriage and career are crumbling, flies from South Carolina to New York after learning of his twin sister's suicide attempt. Savannah is one of the most gifted poets of her generation, and both the cadenced beauty of her art and the jumbled cries of her illness are clues to the too-long-hidden story of her wounded family. In the paneled offices and luxurious restaurants of New York City, Tom and Susan Lowenstein, Savannah's psychiatrist, unravel a history of violence, abandonment, commitment, and love. And Tom realizes that trying to save his sister is perhaps his last chance to save himself.
With passion and a rare gift of language, the author moves from present to past, tracing the amazing history of the Wingos from World War II through the final days of the war in Vietnam and into the 1980s, drawing a rich range of characters: the lovable, crazy Mr. Fruit, who for decades has wordlessly directed traffic at the same intersection in the southern town of Colleton; Reese Newbury, the ruthless, patrician land speculator who threatens the Wingos' only secure worldly possession, Melrose Island; Henry Woodruff, Susan Lowenstein's husband, a world-famous violinist; Tolitha Wingo, Savannah's mentor and eccentric grandmother, the first real feminist in the Wingo family.
Pat Conroy reveals the lives of his characters with surpassing depth and power, capturing the vanishing beauty of the south Carolina lowcountry and a lost way of life. His lyric gifts, abundant good humor, and compelling storytelling are well known to readers of The Great Santini and The Lords of Discipline. The Prince of Tides continues that tradition yet displays a new, mature voice of Pat Conroy, signalling this work as his greatest accomplishment."
567 pages.
ISBN: 0 395 35300 9
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