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<p>Pat Conroy's dark novel exposes a terrible family secret behind recollected Carolina pastorale. The middleaged protagonist, with the help of a sympathetic female psychiatrist, confronts that repressed horror. The film was directed by Barbara Streisand and starred Streisand and Nick Nolte; the novel like all of Conroy's work was a bestseller.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>For sheer storytelling finesse, Conroy will have few rivals this season. His fourth novel is a seductive narrative, told with bravado flourishes, portentous foreshadowing, sardonic humor and eloquent turns of phrase. Like The Great Santini, it is the story of a destructive family relationship wherein a violent father abuses his wife and children. Henry Wingo is a shrimper who fishes the seas off the South Carolina coast and regularly squanders what little money he amasses in farcical business schemes; his beautiful wife, Lila, is both his victim and a manipulative and guilt-inflicting mother. The story is narrated by one of the children, Tom Wingo, a former high school teacher and coach, now out of work after a nervous breakdown. Tom alternately recalls his growing-up years on isolated Melrose Island, then swi

Author

Conroy, Pat, Pat Conroy

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780792713586

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.22 / 5 (1,130 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13