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Author: Katherine Clark
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Imprint: University of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781611179071
ISBN 10: 1611179076
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 13 March 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This book is the closest a reader can come to knowing Pat Conroy as he really was: big-hearted, wickedly funny, and completely unforgettable, even when his demons threatened to get the better of him. No one was more generous toward other writers, or more encouraging to those who sought his counsel. No one better understood the power of stories to save lives. A great light went out on March 4, 2016, but Katherine Clark has done the world a profound service by rekindling it in these pages. --Bronwen Dickey, author of Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon Conroy is unguarded and refreshingly open . . . this makes good reading not just for Conroy's fans, but also teenagers seeking a literary path out of the confusion as well as grown-ups reckoning with their own lives. --Kirkus Reviews
This book is the closest a reader can come to knowing Pat Conroy as he really was: big-hearted, wickedly funny, and completely unforgettable, even when his demons threatened to get the better of him. No one was more generous toward other writers, or more encouraging to those who sought his counsel. No one better understood the power of stories to save lives. A great light went out on March 4, 2016, but Katherine Clark has done the world a profound service by rekindling it in these pages. --Bronwen Dickey, author of Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon Conroy is unguarded and refreshingly open . . . this makes good reading not just for Conroy's fans, but also teenagers seeking a literary path out of the confusion as well as grown-ups reckoning with their own lives. --Kirkus Reviews In 'My Exaggerated Life, ' Conroy truly tells all. In his own approachable and witty voice, he reveals his art, his craft, his family and his foibles. . . Delving into 'My Exaggerated Life' will leave readers thrilled, invigorated and inspired yet, at the same time, wistful and grieving the loss of Conroy's one-of-a-kind literary voice. --Kim Curtis, Associated Press
This book is the closest a reader can come to knowing Pat Conroy as he really was: big-hearted, wickedly funny, and completely unforgettable, even when his demons threatened to get the better of him. No one was more generous toward other writers, or more encouraging to those who sought his counsel. No one better understood the power of stories to save lives. A great light went out on March 4, 2016, but Katherine Clark has done the world a profound service by rekindling it in these pages. --Bronwen Dickey, author of Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon
Author Information
Katherine Clark is the co-author of the oral biographies Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife’s Story, with Onnie Lee Logan, and Milking the Moon: A Southerner’s Story of Life on This Planet (a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award), with Eugene Walter. Her debut novel, The Headmaster’s Darlings, won the 2015 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, part of her Mountain Brook series, along with All the Governor’s Men, The Harvard Bride, and The Ex-Suicide. All four novels were published by the University of South Carolina Press’s Story River Books imprint, whose founding editor was Pat Conroy. Clark holds an A.B. degree in English from Harvard and a Ph.D. in English from Emory.
