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In this powerful and intimate memoir, the beloved bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and his father, the inspiration for The Great Santini, find some common ground at long last.Pat Conroys father, Donald Patrick Conroy, was a towering figure in his sons life. The Marine Corps fighter pilot was often brutal, cruel, and violent as Pat says, I hated my father long before I knew there was an English word for hate. As the oldest of seven children who were dragged from military base to military base across the South, Pat bore witness to the toll his fathers behavior took on his siblings, and especially on his mother, Peg. She was Pats lifeline to a better worldthat of books and culture. But eventually, despite repeated confrontations with his father, Pat managed to claw his way toward a life he could have only imagined as a child.