5/22/2023 0 Comments The water is wide book![]() “One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family,” Conroy said. Four of them were made into films, including The Prince of Tides, starring Barbra Streisand, which had seven Oscar nominations, The Great Santini, for which Michael O’Keefe and Robert Duvall received Oscar nominations playing characters based on Conroy and his abusive father, and The Water Is Wide, which became the movie Conrack, starring Jon Voight. Pat Conroy, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 70, wrote a remarkable series of books that strip-mined the bitter memories of his early years in South Carolina. ![]()
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