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Pat Conroy
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2016 9:10 pm
by Steven
Author Pat Conroy has passed away. R.I.P.
There are some wonderful videos with Pat Conroy on YouTube.
(Though Pat Conroy was not a poet, placing this post in this section anyway.)
Re: Pat Conroy
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2016 8:31 pm
by Steven
Hi,
Found this book to be of interest: Conversations with the Conroy's: Interviews with Pat Conroy
and His Family, published by the University of South Carolina Press.
Re: Pat Conroy
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 3:30 am
by Steven
Hi,
Just finished A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life.
The book is Copyright 2016 by Pat Conroy. I like it a lot.
Re: Pat Conroy
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 1:57 am
by Steven
Hi,
The song "Lili Marlene" briefly comes up in Pat Conroy's novel South of Broad.
It's a remarkable book. Fans of Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat" are likely
to think of "Famous Blue Raincoat" upon reading about or hearing "Lili Marlene."
Re: Pat Conroy
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 4:30 am
by sturgess66
Hi Steven - and thanks!
I'm glad to see this thread again - I'd meant to post a response.
And I totally agree about
South of Broad - a truly remarkable novel.
I am a big fan of Pat Conroy's books - particularly the later ones - like Beach Music, and South of Broad. His writing was so incredibly rich and wonderful - about the South.
Have you seen the movie "Conrack." I had seen it years ago and then just recently it was available on cable TV. Based on Conroy's book "The Water is Wide" - about his experiences as a teacher when he was a young man, at a school on an island off the South Carolina coast. Jon Voight is wonderful as the actor playing "Conrack" (the kids' version of "Conroy"). Music by John Williams.
Trailer -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTePeZag_yI
I, along with so many others, were so looking forward to the new novel he was promising - and then - he was gone ... So sad when Pat Conroy passed away last year.
“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music
“Without music and dance, life is a journey through a desert.”
― Pat Conroy
“
Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding. In dazzling profusion, Colleton ripened in a gauze of sweet gardens and the town ached beneath a canopy of promissory fragrance.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
“The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
Re: Pat Conroy
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 11:15 pm
by Steven
Hi sturgess66,
Thank you for your post. No, haven't seen the movie
Conrack. Thanks for mentioning it.
Will get ahold of the DVD.
I wonder if Pat Conroy had been a fan of Leonard Cohen's music. (Each utilized the ashes of life
as ingredients of creative output.) The first two of the Pat Conroy book-derived quotations in
your post sound Leonard Cohen-like in their tone and expression.
Re: Pat Conroy
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 9:39 pm
by sturgess66
Good news Steven!
Conrack, the movie, is available on YouTube - in 4 parts - uploaded by Brenda J. Peart, (She puts "GOOD UPLOAD" in the titles because, it is! There are other uploads but with a tiny screen - or more than 4 parts)
It's got to be 40 years or so I believe when I first saw this film while attending school in Jamaica WI in the early 70s ... I remember reading the book as well.
Time to explore the terrain... I now live in the Lowcountry of South Carolina!!!!
I just watched a bit of it - so good!
She has the 4 parts in a playlist - so one part slides into the next.
Here --->
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 52fcVs_Pox
And yes, I agree - the quotes - rather "Cohenesque"
Re: Pat Conroy
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 6:12 am
by Steven
Hi sturgess66,
Thanks. Looking forward to watching the movie. Hopefully will be able to do so within
a week or so.
Re: Pat Conroy
Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 8:07 pm
by Steven
Hi sturgess66,
Watched the movie and enjoyed it.