The Water Is Wide: A Memoir
Readers know Pat Conroy as a novelist of great reputation and success, but his first notable achievement as a writer was an autobiographical book called The Water Is Wide, published in 1972 -- the story of a year in his life as a teacher of poor African-American children on a coastal island in...
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Readers know Pat Conroy as a novelist of great reputation and success, but his first notable achievement as a writer was an autobiographical book called The Water Is Wide, published in 1972 -- the story of a year in his life as a teacher of poor African-American children on a coastal island in South Carolina.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780553381573 (0553381571)
Publish date: March 26th 2002
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Adult,
Teaching,
Education,
Contemporary,
Biography Memoir,
Southern
I read this book over 10 years ago and still remember how much I liked it, so that says a lot for it. Very possibly my favorite of all Conroy's books, although I have a hard time picking faves.
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