A powerful and intimate memoir from the author of "The Prince of Tides" and "The Great Santini." Pat Conroy's success as a writer has always been intimately linked with his family life. "The Great Santini" caused a long-simmering conflict to burst into the open, fracturing an already battered family. In the final years of Don Conroy's life, he and his son reached a rapprochement of sorts. "The Death of Santini" is a heart-wrenching account of personal and family struggle, and a poignant lesson on how ties of blood can both strangle and offer succor. It is an act of reckoning, an exorcism of demons, but one whose ultimate conclusion is that love can conquer even the meanest of men.
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