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...prevailing literary wind this fall is from the Southeast. The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy's high-blown family saga of coastal South Carolina, began to stir interest in May at the American Booksellers Association convention in New Orleans. Introduced by Walter Cronkite, Conroy regaled publishing executives and retailers with funny stories about his career and family. With just the right amount of country-boy shuffle, he told how his father, a rough Marine Corps fighter pilot, and his mother, a genteel Georgia beauty, gave new meaning to the word incompatibility. Conroy reminded everyone that his father was the model...
Writers are usually touchy about discussing this subject. But faced with an eager and influential audience, Conroy suggested a truth common to most readers: they are less interested in distinctions of fact and fiction than in rousing stories and lively characters. The Prince of Tides provides plenty of both. There is the time Grandma tried out a coffin at the local funeral home and nearly frightened Ruby Blankenship to death. There is Grandpa, who can water-ski 40 miles and carries a 90-lb. cross through town every Good Friday. Conroy can be shameless in his extravagances of language...
...person or make one phone call. Other people use their data, and the damage proliferates." Said Mayor Edward Bartholomew of Glens Falls, N.Y., which ranked 290th: "We're going to have a public burning of (Rand McNally's) almanac and all their maps." Responded Rand McNally Public Relations Director Conroy Erickson: "All we've done is supply the raw material. Readers need to make their own judgments...
...beau of convenience, Kevin Conroy is boisterously funny yet pathetic, reveling in his self-image as "a brute," never realizing that it is he who is being overpowered. Inge did not transform his characters: they end where they began. But he understood them. In their interplay was genuine life, often blunted but ever resilient. -By William A. Henry...
Jurak led off the fourth with a double. One out later, Mike Easler tripled, scoring Jurak with the tying run. Tony Armas' double scored Easler and, after Ray Burris replaced starter Tim Conroy (0-1), Glenn Hoffman doubled to score Arms...