Book news: Conroy’s complicated father-son relationship
By Dave
March 17th, 2009 | Leave a comment
Pat Conroy has been busy. The author of The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides has a book coming out in September (South of Broad) and just signed a deal for a memoir: The Death of Santini.
The Great Santini caused a huge rift in Conroy’s family, which believed the thinly disguised autobiography betrayed private family matters, but eventually father and son grew close enough that the author eulogized his father at his 1998 funeral.
This memoir, reports Publishers Lunch, is “about his often abusive and complicated father’s final days, and Pat’s coming to terms with him (a Marine fighter pilot who inspired the novel The Great Santini, remembered by many for Robert Duvall’s Oscar-nominated film portrayal of him).”
Pat Conroy’s home page (under construction – probably posting book news!)
One writer’s complicated issues with dad in his last days.
