The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
I began reading this classic South Carolina Low Country novel well before we arrived in the low country and have just finished it as we are in the middle of our time here.
Conroy is one of this regions finest but also deepest authors. Fine, in that you live the stories as he tells them, deep, as you feel the pain and heartache of living those stories as well. And there is much heartache in his tales.
Born of his own tough childhood he weaves a families life over 40 years of weird, strange, awful and wonderful times. As they say, the worst of us each had a mother. In this case, what a mother!
Who is the Prince of Tides? That is the ever present question which remains at the bottom of the Colleten River till almost the last page when the answer rises up like the moon at sunset.
*****Five stars, of course. Can I give less than the finest reviewers of the age?
-Ken
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