The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy
The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy
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The Prince of Tides
A Novel

Author: Pat Conroy

Narrator: Alan Carlson

Unabridged: 25 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 01/25/2023

Synopsis

“A masterpiece that can compare with Steinbeck’s East of Eden. … Some books make you laugh; some make you cry; some make you think. The Prince of Tides is a rarity: It does all three.” — Detroit Free PressA modern American classic and a family saga that spans decades, this is the story of the volatile Tom Wingo, his brilliant but troubled twin sister, Savannah, and the complex and damaging family legacy they share. Moving between the sparkling glamour of New York City and the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina low country, The Prince of Tides is Pat Conroy’s masterwork.“A big, sprawling saga of a novel…the kind you hole up with and spend some days with and put down feeling you have emerged from a terrible, wonderful spell.” —San Francisco Chronicle“A literary gem . . . The Prince of Tides is in the best tradition of novel writing. It is an engrossing story of unforgettable characters.” —The Pittsburgh Press

About Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy (1945–2016) was the author of The Boo, The Water Is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, Beach Music, The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes of My Life, My Losing Season, South of Broad, My Reading Life, and The Death of Santini.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Arah-Lynda on September 09, 2016

My wound is geography.  It is also my anchorage, my port of call. So begins the story of the Wingo family of Melrose Island in Colleton County, South Carolina. As told by Tom Wingo.   To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day,......more

Goodreads review by Jason on September 02, 2007

This is the book that is the reason I read anything at all for pleasure. I decided I was going to read it before the movie came out and COMPLETELY fell in love with Conroy's style, renewed my love-affair with the low country of South Carolina, and discovered the joy of diving into a book wholehearte......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on June 15, 2007

Pat Conroy's prose is tragically acquainted with all the misery and glory and pain and beauty of humanity. It is also deeply entrenched in the American south. I believe he immortalizes his own time and place the way Hemingway did for wartime Europe. This story, so startlingly brutal and direct in it......more

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