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The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son Audiobook

Name: The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son Audiobook
Brand: Random House Audio
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Author: Pat Conroy
ISBN: 9780307989833

By: Pat Conroy

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Read By: Dick Hill Publisher: Random House Audio Listen Time: 15.25 hours at 1.0x Speed 10.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 7.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: October 2013 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780307989833

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264

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03:27 minutes

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Publisher Description

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A painful, lyrical, addictive read” (People) by the cherished author of The Great Santini that brings his extraordinary career full circle Pat Conroy’s great success as a writer has always been intimately linked with the exploration of his family history. As the oldest of seven children who were dragged from military base to military base across the South, Pat bore witness to the often cruel and violent behavior of his father, Marine Corps fighter pilot Donald Patrick Conroy. While the publication of The Great Santini brought Pat much acclaim, the rift it caused brought even more attention, fracturing an already battered family. But as Pat tenderly chronicles here, even the oldest of wounds can heal. In the final years of Don Conroy’s life, the Santini unexpectedly refocused his ire to defend his son’s honor. The Death of Santini is a heart-wrenching act of reckoning whose ultimate conclusion is that love can soften even the meanest of men, lending significance to the oft-quoted line from Pat’s novel The Prince of Tides: “In families there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.” Praise for The Death of Santini “A painful, lyrical, addictive read that [Pat Conroy’s] fans won’t want to miss.”—People “Conroy’s conviction pulls you fleetly through the book, as does the potency of his bond with his family, no matter their sins.”—The New York Times Book Review “Vital, large-hearted and often raucously funny.”—The Washington Post “Conroy writes athletically and beautifully, slicing through painful memories like a point guard splitting the defense.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune “A brilliant storyteller, a master of sarcasm, and a hallucinatory stylist whose obsession with the impress of the past on the present binds him to Southern literary tradition.”—The Boston Globe

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A USA Today bestseller
A 2013 BookPage Best Book
A New York Times bestseller
A Los Angeles Times bestseller
A Washington Post bestseller
A 2013 Washington Post Notable Book
An NPR bestseller
A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
A Chicago Tribune bestseller
Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award
A Publishers Weekly bestseller
An AudioFile Best Audiobook of the Year for 2014
A November 2013 LibraryReads Pick

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" Always loved Conroy’s imagery. I was enjoying the intro listening to Pat’s voice. Then the book began wit this melodramatic grade B actor’s voice, Dick Hill. Pat’s colorful words became mundane with the over enunciation of each word and faux Southern accent. I immediately lost interest. His words, his voice "
— Kat monroe, 10/25/2017

About Pat Conroy

Donald Patrick “Pat” Conroy (1945–2016) was an American author of acclaimed novels and memoirs, two of which made it to #1 on New York Times bestsellers list: Beach Music and South of Broad. Four of his novels were made into major motion pictures: The Prince of Tides, The Great Santini, Conrack, and The Lords of Discipline. The novel on which the movie Conrack was based, The Water Is Wide, won an NEA Human and Civil Rights Award and an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.

About Dick Hill

Sandra Burr is an AudioFile Earphones Award–wining narrator. She has read more than one hundred books in her career, including the New York Times bestselling Cedar Cove romance series by Debbie Macomber.