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Pat Conroy
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Pat Conroy, the beloved
American storyteller, is a voracious reader.
Starting as a childhood passion that bloomed
into a life-long companion, reading has been
Conroy’s portal to the world, both to the
furthest corners of the globe and to the
deepest chambers of the human soul. His
interests range widely, from Milton to
Tolkien, Philip Roth to Thucydides,
encompassing poetry, history, philosophy,
and any mesmerizing tale of his native
South. He has for years kept notebooks in
which he records words and expressions, over
time creating a vast reservoir of playful
turns of phrase, dazzling flashes of
description, and snippets of delightful
sound, all just for his love of language.
But reading for Conroy is not simply a
pleasure to be enjoyed in off-hours or a
source of inspiration for ...
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At last Pat Conroy brings
to his readers who are legion a novel of his
beloved Charleston. This time the
eighteen-year-old protagonist Leopold Bloom
King—yes, his mother is an ardent Joyce
scholar—meets six new classmates who will
join the senior class of Peninsula High
School and develop a deep friendship that
will last the twenty years of this glorious
novel. As Pat Conroy is not a writer to hold
back on either adventure or the pleasure of
language, we are taken from the beautiful
city of Charleston and its many islands to
the mountains of North Carolina, the glamour
of Hollywood and the trolleyed streets of
San Francisco. In pursuit of the beautiful
star Sheba Poe and her twin brother Trevor
is their many-aliases father, escaped from
prison, bent on terror and destruction. And,
by their association with...
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"This book is the
story of my life as it relates to the
subject of food. It is my autobiography in
food and meals and restaurants and
countries far and near. Let me take you to
a restaurant on the left bank of Paris
that I found when writing The Lords of
Discipline. There are meals I ate in
Rome while writing The Prince of Tides
that ache in my memory..."
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In MY LOSING SEASON, Pat Conroy has written an American classic
about young men and the bonds they form, about losing and the lessons it
imparts, about finding one’s voice and one’s self in the midst of
defeat. And in his own voice we see the young Pat Conroy walk from his
life as an athlete to become the writer the world now knows him to be.
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