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| Title | : | The Prince of Tides |
| Author | : | Pat Conroy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 679 pages |
| Published | : | March 26th 2002 by Dial Press Trade Paperback (first published 1986) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Epic Fantasy. Young Adult |
Pat Conroy
Paperback | Pages: 679 pages Rating: 4.24 | 186991 Users | 4102 Reviews
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PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the extraordinary family into which they were born.Filled with the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina low country as well as the dusty glitter of New York City, The Prince of Tides is PAT CONROY at his very best.
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| Original Title: | The Prince of Tides |
| ISBN: | 0553381547 (ISBN13: 9780553381542) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Tom Wingo, Susan Lowenstein, Savannah Wingo, Luke Wingo |
| Setting: | South Carolina(United States) New York City, New York(United States) |
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Ratings: 4.24 From 186991 Users | 4102 ReviewsAssessment Containing Books The Prince of Tides
This is a story about Tom Wingo and his belated attempts to come to grips with his abusive childhood. His sister has made yet another suicide attempt, and Tom comes to New York to see her and speak to her psychiatrist. They both have never mentally healed from their abusive childhood. Half of this story is flashbacks of their upbringing, which was full of mental and physical abuse.I loved the first 200 or so pages. After that, it felt like trying to swim in molasses. This one is near 700 pages,My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.So begins the story of the Wingo family of Melrose Island in Colleton County, South Carolina. As told by Tom Wingo. To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush the great blue heron from its silent occupation, scatter marsh hens as we sink to our knees in mud, open you an oyster with a pocketknife and feed it to you from the shell and say, There. That
Before I wrote this, I took a cursory look at a few of the reviews and realized to my dismay that in this case I am the Grinch who took the roast beast. And yet I stand by my rating because this book was for me an exercise in maudlin pablum. The protagonist experiences all matter of tragedy in his youth, both quotidian and bizarre (an abusive wretch of a father, a venal socially climbing mother, a horrific yet nonsensical assault) and then grows up to have a mentally ill sister and a cheating
Even though I have read this book twice I just purchased it on Amazon Kindle so I can read it again
Even though I have read this book twice I just purchased it on Amazon Kindle so I can read it again
This book came highly recommended to me by a coworker. This novel, however, is the most absurdly sentimental and overwrought book I have picked up in many moons. It's hard to describe the feeling of rolling one's eyes for 567 pages. For example, a priest does not just pray with a soldier - instead, "The priest knelt beside my father and they prayed together, priest and warrior transfigured by moonlight, by warfare, destiny, and the urgent, mysterious, and ineffable cries and secrets of souls
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