{"product_id":"tell-me-a-story-my-life-with-pat-conroy-paperback","title":"Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCassandra King Conroy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eTell Me A Story\u003c\/em\u003e is breathtakingly tender, heartbreakingly true...The best memoir I've read.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e -- Mary Alice Monroe, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Beach House Reunion \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBestselling author Cassandra King Conroy considers her life and the man she shared it with, paying tribute to her husband, Pat Conroy, the legendary figure of modern Southern literature.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCassandra King was leading a quiet life as a professor, divorced \"Sunday wife\" of a preacher, and debut novelist when she met Pat Conroy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir friendship bloomed into a tentative, long-distance relationship. Pat and Cassandra ultimately married, ending Pat's long commutes from coastal South Carolina to her native Alabama. It was a union that would last eighteen years, until the beloved literary icon's death from pancreatic cancer in 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this poignant, intimate memoir, the woman he called King Ray looks back at her love affair with a natural-born storyteller whose lust for life was fueled by a passion for literature, food, and the Carolina Lowcountry that was his home. As she reflects on their relationship and the eighteen years they spent together, cut short by Pat's passing at seventy, Cassandra reveals how the marshlands of the South Carolina Lowcountry ultimately cast their spell on her, too, and how she came to understand the convivial, generous, funny, and wounded flesh-and-blood man beneath the legend--her husband, the original Prince of Tides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 10, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987402162477,"sku":"9780062943408","price":20.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/5EXpdfVd5F9780062943408.webp?v=1776178508","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/tell-me-a-story-my-life-with-pat-conroy-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}