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“”Wasn’t Prince of Tides the one with the graphic homosexual rape scene and the guy getting mauled/eaten by the pet tiger?””

The scene in the house with the escaped convicts - yes...I couldn’t place the tiger for a minute but then it all clicked... Fabulous movie and of course, fabulous book with a lot that wasn’t in the movie. The last Pat Conroy book I read and must be his last one was burying the past with his dad - again fabulous. No one could write like he did. I have always treasured his books and will treasure them all the more now.

EXCERPT from “The Death of Santini”

“”In this powerful and intimate memoir, the beloved bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and his father, the inspiration for The Great Santini, find some common ground at long last.

Pat Conroy’s father, Donald Patrick Conroy, was a towering figure in his son’s life. The Marine Corps fighter pilot was often brutal, cruel, and violent; as Pat says, “I hated my father long before I knew there was an English word for hate.””

“”As the oldest of seven children dragged from military base to military base across the South, Pat bore witness to the toll his father took on his siblings, and especially on his mother, Peg. She was his lifeline to a better world, the world of books and culture, and despite the serial confrontations with his father Pat managed to claw his way towards a life he hardly could have imagined as a child.””