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The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

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Author Biography

Name: Pat Conroy
Birth Date: October 26, 1945
Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Gender: Male
Occupations: Writer

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Biography of Pat Conroy
4588 words, approx. 15.3 pages
"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...
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Biography of Donald Pat(rick) Conroy
2703 words, approx. 9 pages
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...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Prince of Tides Summary
3,342 words, approx. 11 pages
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy Framed by a series of flashbacks, The Prince of Tides actually takes place in two separate settings and two different eras. When Tom Wingo visits his sister's psychologist in modern-day New York, he only intends to...
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The Prince of Tides Information
653 words, approx. 2 pages
The Prince of Tides is a 1986 novel by Pat Conroy. It tells the story of the narrator's struggle to overcome the psychological damage inflicted by his dysfunctional childhood in South Carolina. In 1991, it was adapted to film by producer/director Barbra...


News and Journals
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National Review
The Prince of Tides.
02/17/1992: 812 words, approx. 3 pages
AMONG THE HORDE of holiday movies this column is still struggling to catch up with, one is ahead by a nose: Barbra Streisand's The Prince of Tides, based on a quasi-autobiographical novel by Pat Conroy. "Ahead" in this case means bigness, the addressing...
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The Boston Globe
A Prince Of Tides
10/28/2007: 325 words, approx. 1 pages
OH, THE HORROR! WRITERS' TALES OF 12 TRIPS GONE WRONG Several years ago, a travel editor of this very newspaper asked me to explore how electronic conveniences such as MapQuest and global positioning devices were depriving youngsters of basic navigation skills. Compass?...
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AP News
WVa parents target Pat Conroy books
11/7/2007: 593 words, approx. 2 pages
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....
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Cartoonist Doug Marlette dies in crash
7/11/2007: 997 words, approx. 3 pages
Doug Marlette, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who recently turned his incisive wit toward a budding career as a novelist, died Tuesday in an auto accident in Mississippi. He was 57.Marlette, who split his time between Hillsborough and Tulsa, Okla., and was visiting Mississippi to help...
 


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