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The Prince of Tides: A Novel by Conroy, Pat, author is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Prince of Tides: A Novel about?
<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
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Conroy, Pat, author
- Publisher
- Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781453204023
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance
- Rating
- 4.22 / 5 (161,643 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14