
The Water is Wide (Used Signed Hardcover) - Pat Conroy
Condition: This book is in Good Condition. There is some wear to the edges of the dust cover and yellowing with age. The pages are clean and unmarked. The flyleaf is autographed by the author to a previous owner.
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.
Published 1990 Old New York Book Shop Press
286 pages
5.75" X 8.75"