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The Water is Wide

Pat Conroy

Paperback | Pages: 310 pages

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Original Title:	The Water is Wide
ISBN:	0553381571 (ISBN13: 9780553381573)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Yamacraw Island
Literary Awards:	Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (1973)

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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. Waste from industry threatens their very existence–unless, somehow, they can learn a new life. But they will learn nothing without someone to teach them, and their school has no teacher.

Here is PAT CONROY’S extraordinary drama based on his own experience–the true story of a man who gave a year of his life to an island and the new life its people gave him.

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Title	:	The Water is Wide
Author	:	Pat Conroy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 310 pages
Published	:	March 26th 2002 by Dial Press Trade Paperback (first published 1972)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Biography. Education

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What can I say? I LOVE Pat Conroy's writing! In My Losing Season the way he describes a basketball game is pure poetry. While I was hanging about the local bookseller (as opposed to a book store) waiting for Conroy to write another book, I realized I had never read The Water is Wide. I don't know how I missed a Conroy book. I bought a copy and devoured it as soon as I got home! After having read all his other books and knowing his family history, it was an interesting read. He wrote this book

Published in the early 70s, this is the phenomenal memoir of Pat Conroy as a teacher in 1969, on Defuskie Island, SC. His students were all black and mostly illiterate due to an out of sight, out of mind and racist mindset perpetuated by the school board on the mainland. Without going into all Pat did for those students, he was fired trying to bring joyous teaching and exposure to the world beyond their island. However he did not have the political skills to better the system. Because this story

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I had gotten a copy of this book a while back for a few reasons:1. It takes place in SC2. Pat Conroy is a SC writer3. I like some of his stuff, despite his lunatic family4. I had fond memories of the movie5. One of my favorite folk songs is "The Water is Wide".6. A friend of mine is mentioned in the afterword.I saw the movie made from this book when I was a teenager, a few years before my family moved to South CArolina. It made a big impression on me, so it was with some trepidation that I

I was really impressed with this book. Not only did I enjoy the story, which is true, but I also enjoyed the writing of Pat Conroy. This is the first book I have read by Conroy. This is about the experience Conroy had in the early 70s teaching in a one room school house on Yamacraw Island (which is the pseudonym for Daufuskie Island), an island off the coast of South Carolina. This island was populated by mostly African Americans. The experience was truly eye opening . It really depicted the

I love Pat Conroy's way with words. He has such a keen sense of description. He doesn't use a lot of words, yet manages to be very precise in his details. This detail makes his characters vivid and memorable. There are crappy teachers who care more for their job than the students, and then there are the ones who roll up their sleeves and reach with both hands in order to make a difference. Teachers need to be teachable. Some of the problems with public schools that were addressed in this book,

Goodreads description of this book is simply terrible. This is the story of a white man, who in 1969, took a job teaching completely illiterate, isolated, culturally ignorant, poverty stricken black children on an island off the coast of South Carolina. None of these children could even name the country they lived in and the white school board in charge of them was apathetic, unaware and oblivious. Conroy spent his year teaching these kids using unconventional methods, anything at all that would