by Pat Conroy
Other titles by Pat Conroy available in eBook format
Beach Music • 978-0-307-80473-0
My Losing Season • 978-0-553-89818-7
My Reading Life • 978-0-385-53384-3
The Pat Conroy Cookbook • 978-0-385-53285-3
South of Broad • 978-0-385-53214-3
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RANDOM HOUSE
Frances (“Peg”) Peek and Donald Patrick Conroy, just married, 1945.
Don Conroy at the time he was selected for the Navy Olympic basketball team, 1947.
Peg Conroy holding her firstborn son, Pat.
Just a small family at the time: Pat; his mother, Peg; and his sister Carol.
The boys with Peg. Left to right: Jim, Tom, Tim, Mike, Pat.
The South Carolina All-Star Team in 1963. Pat is kneeling on the left.
The whole family together in 1965. Back row: Jim, Carol, Pat, Kathy, Mike. Front row: Peg, Tim, Tom, Don.
A commendation.
Pat finally goes to college and attends The Citadel.
Pat graduates from The Citadel in 1967.
Pat and Barbara’s wedding, October 10, 1969.
A family picture taken in 1970 to send to Don, who was overseas.
Pat’s thirtieth birthday in 1975. With him are Marion O’Neill; Cliff Graubart, who owned the Old New York Bookshop; and his sister Carol, the poet.
The Peek family of Alabama. Jasper is Pat’s grandfather.
The Conroy family of Chicago.
Pat at the Old New York Bookshop in 1976. He had just published The Great Santini.
Pat talking with Royce Bemis, a sales rep from Houghton Mifflin, the publisher of his first four books.
Don signing books at the Old New York Bookshop in 1976.
Pat playing one-on-one with Michael O’Keefe during the filming of The Great Santini in 1979.
Pat, Don, and Col. Thomas Courvoise, also known as “The Boo.”
Don, Cliff Graubart, and Pat.
Barbara, Jessica, Megan, and Melissa with Pat during a summer in Minnesota.
The Conroys move to Rome from 1982 to 1984 and live on the Piazza Farnese.
Peg, her granddaughter Susannah, and Pat in Rome, 1982.
Shannon Faulkner and Pat autograph books after speaking at a St. Helena Island art gallery in 1995.
The trip to Ireland, 1996. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is in the foreground at left.
Pat with his favorite teacher from childhood, Gene Norris.
Don’s last birthday with Pat, Carol, Kathy, Jim, Mike, and Tim on April 4, 1998.
A drawing by Doug Marlette in honor of Don after his death.
Pat and Cassandra’s wedding in May 1998.
Also by Pat Conroy
The Boo
The Water Is Wide
The Great Santini
The Lords of Discipline
The Prince of Tides
Beach Music
My Losing Season
The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes of My Life
South of Broad
My Reading Life
The moving portrait of a son’s struggle to escape the iron fist of his volatile military father
Marine Colonel Bull Meecham commands his home like a soldiers’ barracks. Cold and controlling but also loving, Bull has complicated relationships with each member of his family—in particular, his eldest son, Ben. Though he desperately seeks his father’s approval, Ben is determined to break out from the Colonel’s shadow. With guidance from teachers at his new school, he strives to find the courage to stand up to his father once and for all.
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