![]() ![]() The whole coastline, from Myrtle Beach in the north to Daufuskie Island (just north of Savannah, Georgia) in the south, held for us a growing affection which led to a number of trips. My appreciation for Conroy’s writing was occurring about the same time Brenda and I were experiencing a growing passion for the setting of much of his writing, the low country of South Carolina. Now it is viewed as a synonym, i.e., if you have a family, it is in some way dysfunctional. For the record, “dysfunctional,” used to be an adjective to describe broken family systems. ![]() ![]() His family was a case study of how broken lives find a way to not only survive, but to carve out a place of meaning, maybe even purpose. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 1987) that I became infatuated with his works. It was shortly after I had finished my last graduate program (M.S. Oh my goodness, talk about a dysfunctional family. I suspect one of the reasons I was so taken by his writing was that everything he wrote was at least semi-autobiographical. ![]() A number of his literary works lent themselves to the big screen, “The Great Santini,” and “Prince of Tides,” are two of the more well known. His training as a school teacher quickly gave way to his life as an author. One of his first books, “The Water is Wide,” was made into a movie, “Conrack,” starring John Voight. The genius of Pat Conroy as a storyteller was evident from the very beginning. ![]()
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