The Prince of Tides

The Prince of Tides: Pat Controy has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning 40 years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the extraordinary family into which they were born.Filled with the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina low country as well as the dusty glitter of New York City, The Prince of Tides is Pat Conroy at his very best.

"Conroy has achieved a penetrating vision of the Southern psyche in this enormous novel of power and emotion." (Library Journal)

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  Pat Controy has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning 40 years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the extraordinary family into which they were born.Filled with the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina low country as well as the dusty glitter of New York City, The Prince of Tides is Pat Conroy at his very best.
  
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  Pat Controy has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning 40 years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the extraordinary family into which they were born.
  
  Filled with the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina low country as well as the dusty glitter of New York City, The Prince of Tides is Pat Conroy at his very best. — Source: Audible

  

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  PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the extraordinary family into which they were born.
  
  Filled with the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina low country as well as the dusty glitter of New York City, The Prince of Tides is PAT CONROY at his very best. — Source: Amazon

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  A new classic on my Kindle!

  This is a wonderful classic that I missed the first time around. Thanks so much the publisher and Amazon for offering the Kindle Edition of "The Prince of Tides". It is the best novel I have read this year. I hope that Amazon will offer more great reads like this one for Kindle owners!

  Rating: 5
  The Prince of Tides: A Novel review by Nancy E. White, 2010-09-01

  By No Means Conroy's Best

  I'll admit that I went into reading this book with great expectations, having read 'Beach Music' and 'The Great Santini' and enjoyed them. But I'll also admit that I failed to finish this book, though I skipped around in the second half of it and got a pretty good idea of what the rest of it was like.
  
  Why I failed to finish had to do with the over-the-top nature of the plot and with the repetitive nature of Conroy's storytelling. In every story of his I've read, the basic story is the same - a man who's lost at love and been a failure, sports, too much liquor, a chance at redemption, and a dreadful family that revolves around an abusive father. Fine, many of these are part of Mr. Conroy's own background and, as we all know, authors write what they know. But in this story the elements are blown up to fantastic proportions, creating a kind of grand guignol, a Southern Gothic that almost brings on the giggles a couple of times. The father is more horrible, the beatings are more savage, the mother is more manipulative, the failure of the protagonist more abject, and the family secret more horrible than ever; as if by piling up these elements the author intended to create such an imposing and epic structure that the reader would be awed into complete adoration.
  
  Well, I'm sorry, I didn't buy it. So much so that in fact I abandoned the thing midway through. The writing was often good, the descriptions fine, at times quite beautiful, the characterizations strong, even pungent; you expect all that from a writer of Conroy's quality. But this was for me a hothouse flower of a novel - big, overblown, and reeking with the cloying scent of Southern soap opera.
  
  I just can't recommend this one...not unless big and gaudy is how you like 'em. If so, dig in.

  Rating: 2
  The Prince of Tides: A Novel review by L. Chapin, 2010-08-25

  Disappointing

  This book promises much but delivers precious little. The first 250 pages or so are really great. The story is engrossing, the characters are vivid, the plot is intricate and beautifully crafted. Then, the novel suddenly transforms into a collection of loosely connected short stories that could have been excised from the book without damaging the plot in the least. Each new episode is more saccharine than the previous one. The language grows more and more pompous with every episode. These weird short stories have endings that are entirely fantastic and completely unconvincing.
  
  Without giving anything away, I can say that the ending of the novel is wildly incongruous with the rest of the work. It feels like everything we have learned about the characters in the 600+ pages has to be thrown out in order to comprehend and accept this extremely disappointing finale. The closing scenes of the book are narrated in a language that is unparalleled as an exercise in pomposity and syrupy sentimentality. What could have been a great book ends up being a cheesy melodrama.

  Rating: 2
  The Prince of Tides: A Novel review by Olga Bezhanova, 2010-08-21

  Pat Conroy at his best...majestic, lush, and beautifully tragic

  This is Pat Conroy at his best. Once again, he writes a novel that makes you laugh, cry, and evaluate your life (and sometimes he does this in the same paragraph!). As usual, he presents us with an anti-hero, someone we can relate to and someone we can dislike (yet love because they share so many qualities of yourself). Prince of Tides is an epic, sweeping novel that takes us back and forth between eras and locations, providing lush landscapes matched with some of the most beautiful passages in the English language. This is a book that makes you stop, stifle tears, and re-read the majestic beauty of a paragraph. As someone who is attempting to write a book himself, I become utterly jealous of his writing and wish it were mine! At times the book becomes slow though a lot of that becomes integral to the overall storyline. And the 90% of the book that is not slow, well, watch out! It will blow you away. And finally, if you are like me and have a bit of Tom Wingo inside you, then this book will capture you right away and stick with you after the final paragraph is over. P.S. if anyone has any other author (or book) recommendations besides Pat Conroy but like Pat Conroy, I would appreciate it. I absolutely loved The Great Santini and Lords Of Discipline and cannot wait to read the rest of his fictional novels!

  Rating: 5
  The Prince of Tides: A Novel review by Darth Wader, 2010-08-17

  Didn't childhood mess us all up?

  So beautiful. I just watched the movie for the first time, so I had to go and read the book and thank God I did. The prose and story are remarkable and made this a wonderful read without sacraficing depth. I recommend this for anyone who has been in a family and is still trying to understand the dynamics.

  Rating: 5
  The Prince of Tides: A Novel review by Angela G. Patino, 2010-07-26

  

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  Annotation

  Spanning 40 years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the extraordinary family into which they were born.

  Biography

  Pat Conroy's novels are populated with domineering fathers, Southern belles of steel, and inexorable tragedy; all are elements the author is familiar with from his own life, and he has drawn on them to create unforgettable books. He is sometimes accused of florid prose, but he never fails to draw attention -- and readers -- with his passionate stories.

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  PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the extraordinary family into which they were born.
  
  Filled with the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina low country as well as the dusty glitter of New York City, The Prince of Tides is PAT CONROY at his very best.

  Library Journal

  Savannah Wingo, a successful feminist poet who has suffered from hallucinations and suicidal tendencies since childhood, has never been able to reconcile her life in New York with her early South Carolina tidewater heritage. Her suicide attempt brings her twin brother, Tom, to New York, where he spends the next few months, at the request of Savannah's psychiatrist, helping to reconstruct and analyze her early life. In beautifully contrasting memories which play childhood fears against the joys and wonders of being alive, Tom creates and communicates the all-consuming sense of family which is Savannah's major strength as a poet and her tragic flaw as a human being. Conroy has achieved a penetrating vision of the Southern psyche in this enormous novel of power and emotion. BOMC main selection.Thomas L. Kilpatrick, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale

  Publishers Weekly

  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 switches to the present in Manhattan, where his twin sister and renowned poet, Savannah, is recovering from a suicide attempt. One secret at the heart of this tale is the fate of their older brother Luke; we know he is dead, but the circumstances are slowly revealed. Also kept veiled is ``what happened on the island that day''a grisly scene of horror, rape and carnage that eventually explains much of the sorrow, pain and emotional alienation endured by the Wingo siblings. Conroy deftly manages a large cast of characters and a convoluted plot, although he dangerously undermines credibility through a device by which Tom tells the Wingo family saga to Savannah's psychiatrist. Some readers may find here a pale replica of Robert Penn Warren's powerful evocation of the Southern myth; others may see resemblances to John Irving's baroque imaginings. Most, however, will be swept along by Conroy's felicitous, often poetic prose, his ironic comments on the nature of man and society, his passion for the marshland country of the South and his skill with narrative. 250,000 first printing; $250,000 ad/promo; movie rights to United Artists; BOMC main selection; author tour. (October 21)

  School Library Journal

  YA In order to aid a psychiatrist who is treating his psychotic sister, Tom Wingo arrives in Manhattan and describes figures from his youth, among them an abusive father, a mother obsessed with being accepted by Colleton's tawdry elite, eccentric grandparents, stolid brother Luke, and sensitive, poet-sister Savannah. Despite the book's length, scenes such as Grandmother Tolitha's visit to Ogletree's funeral home to try out coffins, Grandfather's yearly re-enactment of the stations of the Cross, Mrs. Wingo's passive-aggressive retaliation by serving her husband dog food, Luke's Rambo-like attempt to keep Colleton from becoming a nuclear plant site, and a bloody football game with the team's first black player deserve students' attention. While Conroy's skills at characterization and storytelling have made the book popular, his writing style may place it among modern classics. He adds enough detail so that readers can smell the salty low-country marsh, see the regal porpoise Snow against the dark ocean, and taste Mrs. Wingo's gourmet cooking and doctored dog food. The story is wholly Tom's; Conroy resists the temptation to include the vantage points of other characters. It is the reluctance of Tom to tell all, to recount rather than recreate his family's past, and to face up to the Wingos' mutual rejections that maintain the tension just below the story's surface. It is Tom's coming clean about his past that lays bare the truth and elevates Prince of Tides above a scintillating best seller. Alice Conlon, Univ . of Houston

  Synopsis

  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.

  
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  the prince of tides

  captivating, great writing style, timeless storyline.

  Rating: 5
  The Prince of Tides review by Carspar289, 2010-01-11

  Entertaining ride through one man's life

  I confess that the 5 stars I gave this book are because of the way it takes me back home - to the South Carolina Lowcountry. As a transplant to the NYC Metro Area, the novel's setting couldn't be more perfect for me. Tom Wingo is a bit crude, but his tales of home are enough to make me want to pack up the moving truck and move back to Charleston.

  Rating: 5
  The Prince of Tides review by SC2NY, 2010-01-11

  

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