"In every one of . . . [novelist Pat] Conroy's big, story-driven Southern books, there has been a father, a son and a holy ghost in the form of an ineffable secret," wrote Tracy Cochran of Publishers Weekly. Conroy has made a cottage in...
Pat Conroy's writing is marked by an obsessive interest in the love/hate relationship and its ensuing tensions. Whether between Citadel cadet and "The Boo," young teacher and school superintendent, or teenage son and "Great Santini," this search for bala...
Beach Music is Pat Conroy's novel of Jack McCall, a South Carolina native who flees the South with his daughter, Leah, after his wife commits suicide. This novel explores the Vietnam War-era, the Holocaust, and coming of age in the twentieth century....
IAN McEWAN is back on form. Following "Saturday", his enjoyable but overly safe previous novel, this master of fiction has written a poignant new book that in terms of its diminutive size--though not its emotional range--is reminiscent of his Man Booker-prize-winning "Amsterdam". It...
BOOK REVIEW Life's a Beach By Claire Cook Hyperion, 272 pp., $23.95 What better title for a chick-lit beach read than Claire Cook's "Life's a Beach"? The irreverent play on words sets up a delightful and surprisingly compelling page turner...
Graphic depictions of violence, suicide and sexual assault in two Pat Conroy books are at the heart of a First Amendment debate, pitting offended parents against high school students who object to being told what they can't read.Even Conroy has interjected himself into the debate....
It's been 10 years since Disney started its cruises with the Disney Magic ship, followed in 1999 by Disney Wonder. Two more Disney ships will launch in 2011 and 2012. And while you won't find casinos on any Disney ships, you will find plenty of...
