Swept Away!
I was recently asked if there was a single book that most impacted me as a writer. I didn’t hesitate in answering, “Pat Conroy’s Prince of Tides.” I so admired Conroy’s The Boo when it debuted in 1970 that I devoured all his subsequent works, but none prepared me for The Prince of Tides. Like millions of other readers, I was enthralled and why not? The very first line was irresistible: “My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.” Conroy was crying “All aboard!” and I couldn’t wait for the ride. The story involves a picaresque, sublimely dysfunctional Carolina clan and more than once veers with infinite grace from prose to poetry that left me breathless. Consider his white dolphin. “Rising,...
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