A lowcountry heart : reflections on a writing life
Item details
- ISBN: 9780385530866 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0385530862 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
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xiv, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2016]
Contents / Notes
Formatted Contents Note: | A note to the reader / Nan A. Talese -- Introduction / Cassandra King -- Hey, out there. The first letter: an opening to the light ; Surprises on the road ; The fire sermon: speech by Pat Conroy, delivered at Penn Center ; On the future of books ; My spooky life ; My blogging life ; The Boo's lambs gather in Charleston ; Hitch 22: a great memoir ; the night the band played the "Tennessee Waltz" ; The man who inspired my Losing Season left us too soon... ; A room of her own...and the birth of Moonrise ; On the road again...airports, editors, publicists, and my writing life ; A long-lasting friendship: Charlie Gibson of Good Morning America ; Vietnam still haunting me... ; The teachers of my life ; Barbara Warley was loved by everyone ; How George R.R. Martin made me love dire wolves, giants, dwarves, and dragons... ; A eulogy for a Southern gentleman ; Remembering an irreplaceable friend ; The best night in the life of this aging Citadel point guard... ; The summer I met my first great man ; Andie MacDowell at the Beaufort Film Festival ; Mina & Conroy Fitness Studio ; A few things I wish I had told Ann Patchett... ; Conroy at seventy -- happy birthday to me ; On Pat Conroy's Facebook page on the day of his passing -- The great Conroy. A conversation with Pat Conroy ; A letter to my grandson on sportsmanship and basketball ; Pat Conroy talks about the /south, his mother, and The Prince of Tides ; Pat Conroy speaks to Meredith Maran ; On my Paris days ; A letter to the editor of the Charleston Gazette ; A lowcountry heart ; Pat Conroy's Citadel speech ; Farewell letter / Bernie Schein ; The great Conroy: an homage to a southern literary giant and a prince of a guy, / Rick Bragg ; Eulogy / delivered by Judge Alex Sanders ; Acknowledgments / Cassandra King. |
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Subject: | Conroy, Pat Conroy, Pat Conroy, Pat LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters |
Genre: | Essays. Essays. |
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Athens Regional Library System: Athens-Clarke County Library |
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