Pat Conroy
A Critical Companion
Series: Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers
By Landon C. Burns
0-313-29419-4/978-0-313-29419-8
Description
No one who has read Pat Conroy's novels of family wounds and healing can fail to be moved by their emotional appeal. But Conroy is also a major contemporary American novelist who follows in the tradition of Southern fiction established by William Faulkner and Thomas Wolfe. This companion is the first book-length study of his work. It explores the recurring motifs in his fiction and his special writing talents as a prose stylist of uncommon distinction. A separate chapter for
The Boo
and
The Water is Wide
and each novel--
The Great Santini
,
The Lords of Discipline
,
The Prince of Tides
, and his most recent,
Beach Music
--provides a detailed analysis of the books and the common threads that unite all the novels.
Reviews:
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Biographical information and critical analysis of this best-selling author are painstakingly presented. Conroy's dysfunctional family is well described in the first chapter...His coming-of-age themes and how his novels fit into the "Southern genre" are extensively discussed in the critical analysis of his work...Burns has done a fine job of delving into the writer's life and works...this is a much-needed resource.
—School Library Journal
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A model of its kind, this student aid is recommended for general and undergraduate collections.
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