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In this powerful and personal memoir, the cherished best-selling author of The Prince of Tides and his dad, the motivation for The Great Santini, find some typically common ground finally. Pat Conroy's dad, Donald Patrick Conroy, was a towering shape in his son's life. The Marine Corps fighter pilot was often brutal, cruel, and violent; as Pat says, "I hated my dad a long time before I knew there was an English word for 'hate.'" As the oldest of seven children who had been dragged from military base to military base across the South, Pat bore witness to the toll his father's habit got on his siblings, and especially on his mom, Peg. She was Pat's lifeline to a better world - that of literature and culture. But eventually, despite repeated confrontations with his father, Pat were able to claw his way toward a life he may have only thought as a child. Pat's great success as a writer is definitely intimately linked with the exploration of his genealogy. As the publication of The Great Santini brought Pat much acclaim, the rift it triggered with his dad brought even more attention. Their long-simmering conflict burst into the open up, fracturing an already battered family. But as Pat tenderly chronicles here, even the oldest of wounds can cure. In the final many years of Don Conroy's life, he and his boy come to a rapprochement of sorts. Quite unexpectedly, the Santini who possessed easily doled out physical misuse to his partner and children refocused his ire on those who possessed turned on Pat over the years. He defended his son's honor. The Loss of life of Santini reaches once a heart-wrenching accounts of personal and family struggle and a poignant lesson in how the ties of blood can both strangle and offer succor. It really is an act of reckoning, an exorcism of demons, but one whose ultimate bottom line is the fact love can soften even the meanest of men, loaning significance to 1 of the most-often quoted lines from Pat's best-selling novel The Prince of Tides: "In families there are no offences beyond forgiveness."
