My reading life
Title:
My reading life
JLCTITLE245:
Pat Conroy ; drawings by Wendell Minor.
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2010]
Physical Description:
x, 337 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
ISBN:
9780385533577
Abstract:
Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound effect reading has had on his life.
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Contents:
The lily -- Gone with the wind -- The teacher -- Charles Dickens on Daufuskie Island -- The librarian -- The Old New York Book Shop -- The book rep -- My first writers' conference -- On being a military brat -- A southerner in Paris -- A love letter to Thomas Wolfe -- The Count -- My teacher, James Dickey -- Why I write.