Actors as different as Jon Voight, Michael O'Keefe, David Keith and Nick Nolte have played writer Pat Conroy and his fictional surrogates in a string of memorable movies. Roll them all together, with their rough edges intact, and you wouldn't achieve the total range of his creative personality. A partial list of his work includes "The Water is Wide" (filmed as "Conrack"), a straightforward, ebullient teaching memoir; "The Great Santini," an intensely focused character study of a tyrannical Marine ace; "The Lords of Discipline," a hard-hitting fictional exposé of initiation rites at a military college; and "The Prince of Tides," a lush, traumatic Southern family epic.
Read the full story here. See also:
South of Broad: A Novel
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My Reading Life
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The Lords of Discipline: A Novel
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The Great Santini: A Novel
CHARLIE ROSE: Martin Amis is here. At just 24 he published his debut
novel "The Rachel Papers." He was quickly branded the enfant terrible of
literary England and established a career rivaling that of his famous
father Kingsley Amis.
Almost 40 years and 20 books later, Martin Amis is now 60 and he’s
going strong. Ron Charles of the "Washington Post" says "There’s not a
smarter, cleverer writer alive than Martin Amis." "The Pregnant Widow" is
his twelfth novel. I’m pleased to have him here back at this table.
And there’s also this in the beginning of the book, "The death of the
contemporary forms of social order are to gladden rather than trouble the
soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing world leaves behind it
not an heir, but a pregnant widow. Between the death of the one and the
birth of the other, much water will flow by, a long night of chaos and
desolation will pace." Alexander Person -- from that you chose this title.
Check the full interview out here, and the transcript out here. See also:
Money: A Suicide Note (Penguin Ink) (The Penguin Ink Series)
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The Rachel Papers
