The Water Is Wide
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972.
Price: $1,000.00
Hardcover. First edition. Neat owner's name front pastedown else fine in fine dustwrapper with none of the usual fading to the spine lettering and with very slight wrinkle on the rear panel. The author's second book, and his first by a commercial publisher, about his experiences teaching poor children on Yamacraw Island (Daufuskie Island) off the coast of South Carolina. Basis for the movie *Conrack* that featured Jon Voight and Paul Winfield. A lovely unread copy.
Item #418358
ISBN: 039513644X
Pat Conroy
birth name: Pat Conroy
born: 10/26/1945
Biography
Southern novelist whose works explore interpersonal and family relationships.more