LEADER 04823nam 2200649 450 001 9910797413603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-61117-632-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000466440 035 $a(EBL)2054921 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001543415 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16135583 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001543415 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13445655 035 $a(PQKB)10338070 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2054921 035 $a(OCoLC)919125233 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse47433 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2054921 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11092762 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL824681 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000466440 100 $a20150721h20152015 ub| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aConversations with the Conroys $einterviews with Pat Conroy and his family /$fedited with an introduction by Walter Edgar ; afterword by Nikky Finney 210 1$aColumbia SC :$cUniversity of South Carolina Press :$cPublished in Cooperation with South Carolina Educational Television and the Humanities Council,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (134 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61117-631-X 311 $a1-61117-630-1 327 $aCover; Contents; Introduction; An Evening with Pat Conroy; Pat Conroy and Family; A Conroy Family Roundtable; The Conroys Chat in Charleston; The Rememberer; Translating Love: Afterword 330 $a"A New York Times best-selling author of eleven novels and memoirs, Pat Conroy is one of America's most beloved storytellers and a writer as synonymous with the South Carolina lowcountry as pluff mud or the Palmetto tree. As Conroy's writings have been rooted in autobiography more often than not, his readers have come to know and appreciate much about the once-secret dark familial history that has shaped Conroy's life and work. Conversations with the Conroys opens further the discussion of the Conroy family through five revealing interviews conducted in 2014 with Pat Conroy and four of his six siblings: brothers Mike, Jim, and Tim and sister Kathy. In confessional and often comic dialogs, the Conroys openly discuss the perils of being raised by their larger-than-life parents, USMC fighter pilot Col. Don Conroy (the Great Santini) and southern belle Peggy Conroy (ne?e Peek); the complexities of having their history of abuse made public by Pat's books; the tragic death of their youngest brother, Tom; the chasm between them and their sister Carol Ann; and the healing, redemptive embrace they have come to find over time in one another. With good humor and often-striking candor, these interviews capture the Conroys as authentic and indeed proud South Carolinians, not always at ease with their place in literary lore, but nonetheless deeply supportive of Pat in his life and writing. Edited and introduced by the Palmetto State's preeminent historian, Walter Edgar, Conversations with the Conroys includes the first publications of Pat Conroy's interview with Edgar as the keynote address of the 2014 One Book, One Columbia citywide "big read" program, the unprecedented interview with the Conroy siblings for SCETV Radio's Walter Edgar's Journal, the resulting live Conroy Family Roundtable held at the 2014 South Carolina Book Festival, and a recent interview in Charleston following Pat Conroy's induction into the Citadel's Athletics Hall of Fame. This collection is augmented with an afterword from National Book Award-winning poet Nikky Finney and nearly fifty photographs, many from the Pat Conroy Archive in the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina Libraries, and published here for the first time. Through the resulting treasure trove of text and images, this volume is as much a keepsake for Conroy's legion of devoted fans as it is a wealth of insider information to broaden the understanding of readers and researchers alike of the idiosyncratic world of Pat Conroy and his family"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aAuthors, American$zSouth Carolina$vBiography 606 $aAuthors, American$xFamily relationships 606 $aAuthors, American$vBiography 606 $aFamilies$zSouth Carolina 615 0$aAuthors, American 615 0$aAuthors, American$xFamily relationships. 615 0$aAuthors, American 615 0$aFamilies 676 $a813.54 676 $aB 686 $aBIO026000$2bisacsh 702 $aEdgar$b Walter B.$f1943- 702 $aFinney$b Nikky 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797413603321 996 $aConversations with the Conroys$93712746 997 $aUNINA