Pat Conroy
Paperback | Pages: 679 pages Rating: 4.24 | 186991 Users | 4102 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Prince of Tides |
| ISBN: | 0553381547 (ISBN13: 9780553381542) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Tom Wingo, Susan Lowenstein, Savannah Wingo, Luke Wingo |
| Setting: | South Carolina(United States) New York City, New York(United States) |
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PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the extraordinary family into which they were born.Filled with the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina low country as well as the dusty glitter of New York City, The Prince of Tides is PAT CONROY at his very best.
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| Title | : | The Prince of Tides |
| Author | : | Pat Conroy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 679 pages |
| Published | : | March 26th 2002 by Dial Press Trade Paperback (first published 1986) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Epic Fantasy. Young Adult |
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Ratings: 4.24 From 186991 Users | 4102 ReviewsCrit Based On Books The Prince of Tides
This book came highly recommended to me by a coworker. This novel, however, is the most absurdly sentimental and overwrought book I have picked up in many moons. It's hard to describe the feeling of rolling one's eyes for 567 pages. For example, a priest does not just pray with a soldier - instead, "The priest knelt beside my father and they prayed together, priest and warrior transfigured by moonlight, by warfare, destiny, and the urgent, mysterious, and ineffable cries and secrets of soulsThis book was, like all of Conroy's titles, intensely gripping, humorous at times, coarse and gruesome at others, with more than a few touches of sheer poetry scattered everywhere.Conroy excels at describing tortured family life; in this case the Wingos of South Carolina. Through narrator Tom's eyes, we learn about his parents, his older brother Luke, and his twin sister Savannah. Rarely does one family have so much happening: whether drama comes from inside the family circle or from without, it
I recently re-read this after many years. First, Pat Conroy is one hell of a writer. His prose is lyrical. I always say if Jimmy Buffet can set your words to music (The white porpoise comes to me at night, singing in the river of time . . .) then you are a heck of a writer.His books have so many plots it's always interesting to see the film adaptation.Te only thing that strikes me is how over the top every plot line is. Nothing ordinary ever happened to a Wingo. Or to any of Conroy's characters.
I'm wearing my softest, fuzziest slippers while writing this review - treading as lightly as I possibly can - realising that I'm on holy ground here, discussing a much beloved book among many of my very dear and respected Goodreads friends. PLEASE, DON'T HATE ME!This book was at a disadvantage from the beginning, because the spectres of Babs and Nick haunted me continuously from the horrendous movie adaptation. However, I was fully expecting to love and revel in this big, romantic, Southern
I don't understand why this book gets rave reviews. I made it through the nearly 600 pages, but I can't say that I enjoyed most of it. Here is a random excerpt: "I tasted the wine and it was so robust and appealing that I could feel my mouth singing with pleasure when I brought the glass from my lips. The aftertaste held like a chord on my tongue; my mouth felt like a field of flowers. The mousse made me happy to be alive." Give me a break. Am I supposed to believe all of this? I felt like the
My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.So begins the story of the Wingo family of Melrose Island in Colleton County, South Carolina. As told by Tom Wingo. To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush the great blue heron from its silent occupation, scatter marsh hens as we sink to our knees in mud, open you an oyster with a pocketknife and feed it to you from the shell and say, There. That
My husband and I listened to THE PRINCE OF TIDES on Sirius radio while driving across Eastern Canada. This was was our introduction to the well known and loved author, Pat Conroy. The beginning of my love affair with the work of Pat Conroy was this intense, dramatic, passionate, sad and humorous story. Pat Conroy introduced the audiobook THE PRINCE OF TIDES and praised Frank Muller for fantastic job he did reading this story. Mr. Muller changed his voice for the narrator and different characters
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