Pat Conroy : A Critical Companion

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.Burns, Landon C. is the author of 'Pat Conroy : A Critical Companion', published 2002 under ISBN 9780313326417 and ISBN 031332641X.