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    The Lost Prince: A Search for Pat Conroy
    The Lost Prince: A Search for Pat Conroy
    The Lost Prince: A Search for Pat Conroy
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Lost Prince: A Search for Pat Conroy

    Written by Michael Mewshaw

    Narrated by Bob Souer

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    About this audiobook

    Pat Conroy was America's poet laureate of family dysfunction. A larger-than-life character and the author of such classics as The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, Conroy was remembered by everybody for his energy, his exuberance, and his self-lacerating humor.

    Michael Mewshaw's The Lost Prince is an intimate memoir of his friendship with Pat Conroy, one that involves their families and those days in Rome when they were both young-when Conroy went from being a popular regional writer to an internationally bestselling author. Family snapshots beautifully illustrate that time. Shortly before his forty-ninth birthday, Conroy telephoned Mewshaw to ask a terrible favor. With great reluctance, Mewshaw did as he was asked-and never saw Pat Conroy again.

    Although they never managed to reconcile their differences completely, Conroy later urged Mewshaw to write about "me and you and what happened . . . i know it would cause much pain to both of us. but here is what that story has that none of your others have." The Lost Prince is Mewshaw's fulfillment of a promise.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateFeb 26, 2019
    ISBN9781684419722
    The Lost Prince: A Search for Pat Conroy
    Author

    Michael Mewshaw

    Michael Mewshaw’s five-decade career includes award-winning fiction, nonfiction, literary criticism, travel writing, and investigative journalism. In his memoirs, Mewshaw has written about authors such as William Styron, James Jones, Paul Bowles, Anthony Burgess, Pat Conroy, Gore Vidal, and Italo Calvino. He has published hundreds of articles, reviews, and literary profiles in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Newsweek, Harper’s, and many other international outlets. Friends with Graham Greene for the last twenty years of Greene’s life, Mewshaw’s correspondence with the author is archived in its entirety at Boston College and the University of Texas.

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    • 5/5
      The writing is very good in this book. I would suggest you read the wife's book first as this description of Pat Conroy concentrates on his flaws. I can't imagine trying to be married to him or being his child. It made me think that he probably lived his whole life in his fiction creating whatever made him look good.

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    • 2/5
      Sadly a book that need not have been written. The author takes advantage of a one-time friendship with a more successful, now deceased, author to sell a book and get revenge. "He had hurt me." Michael Mewshaw also uses this book to air complaints about his birth family and publishing history. I'm glad I was able to borrow this book from the library and not further enrich the author.