The Water Is Wide
A Memoir
Random House Publishing Group · Print & ebook · March 26, 2002
A “miraculous” (Newsweek) human drama, based on a true story, from the renowned author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful.
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- Who it’s for
- A memoir that reads cleanly for study, with place and teaching doing much of the work.
- Genres
- Lives in Education, Personal Memoirs, Southern U.S. History
- Published
- Random House Publishing Group, March 26, 2002
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A “miraculous” (Newsweek) human drama, based on a true story, from the renowned author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families on Yamacraw Island, America is a world away. For years the people here lived proudly from the sea, but now its waters are not safe.
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Waste from industry threatens their very existence unless, somehow, they can learn a new way. But they will learn nothing without someone to teach them, and their school has no teacher—until one man gives a year of his life to the island and its people. Praise for The Water Is Wide “Miraculous . . . an experience of joy.”—Newsweek “A powerfully moving book . . . You will laugh, you will weep, you will be proud and you will rail . . . and you will learn to love the man.”—Charleston News and Courier “A hell of a good story.”—The New York Times “Few novelists write as well, and none as beautifully.”—Lexington Herald-Leader “[Pat] Conroy cuts through his experiences with a sharp edge of irony. . . . He brings emotion, writing talent and anger to his story.”—Baltimore Sun
Classroom Memoir
A memoir that reads cleanly for study, with place and teaching doing much of the work.
Come here for
- memoir with classroom pull
- Southern coast, education, memory
Expect
- reflective, personal voice
- good fit for assignment reading
Where it sits
| Lives in Education | 84% |
|---|---|
| Southern U.S. History | 64% |
| Personal Memoirs | 58% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Lives in Education
- Personal Memoirs
- Social History
- Authors
- Pat Conroy
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- March 26, 2002
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Lives in Education