The Water Is Wide

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1972).

Price: $50.00

Hardcover. Book club edition. Illustrated with photographs by William and Paul Keyserling. Spotting on the top page edge else very good in a very good dust jacket with toning, rubbing, and edgewear. 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.

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Item #614026 The Water Is Wide. Pat CONROY.