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Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955. They came over a whim, as well as for Conroy it was the start of a lifelong romance with this "small, relaxed oasis in the ocean." This book, part travel diary, part memoir, is a hauntingly evocative and personal journey through Nantucket: its sweeping dunes, rugged moors, remote beaches, secret fishing spots, and hidden forests and cranberry bogs. Admirers of Conroy’s classic and acclaimed memoir Stop-Time will again delight in what James Atlas, writing in the brand new York Times, called his "genius for close observation."
In Time and Tide, Conroy recounts the island’s history from the glory days of the whaling boom for this, when tourism dominates. He vividly evokes the clash of cultures between your working class and the super-rich, with the fragile ecology of the island always in the total amount. But most fascinating of most, he tells his own story--of playing jazz piano in the island’s bars; of raising a barn in the first '60s by using a bunch of hippie carpenters; of leasing an old, failed bar with two island pals and turning it into the Roadhouse, a club "that was to be ours, the year-rounders, and hell with the summer people." There’s a marvelous story of his first golf game, played on an ancient nine-hole course with two friends, a part-time sommelier and a builder from the South who invented the one-handed pepper mill.
This is a book that revels in friendship, music, history, and the beautiful landscape of a distinctive American place, and is an excellent work by one in our greatest contemporary writers.
