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Signed by author on Title page. Binding tear from cover at front fly. LCCN: 95013563 LCN: PS3553. O5198 B43 1995 DCN: 813/.54 Size: 24cm x 16.5cm x 4cm Weight: 2 lbs 5 oz

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1995. First Edition/First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine+/Near Fine+. Signed by the Great Santini, Donald Conroy, Pat's father; and Pat Conroy. Donald has added 'The Great Santini.'

New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Top corner and spine crown slightly bumped, still a very nice copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

SIgned by the author on the Title page.

New York: Nan A. Talese [An Imprint of Doubleday], 1995. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Joyce Ravid (Author photograph). [12], 628 pages. Note to the Reader. Author signature is on a separate insert. PAT CONROY is the author of five previous books: The Boo, The Water Is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides, the last four of which were made into feature films. Donald Patrick Conroy (October 26, 1945 - March 4, 2016) was an American author who wrote several acclaimed novels and memoirs; his books The Water is Wide, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini were made into films, the last two being nominated for Oscars. As a graduate of The Citadel's Corps of Cadets, his experiences at The Citadel provided the basis for two of his best-known works, the novel The Lords of Discipline and the memoir My Losing Season. The latter details his senior year on the school's underdog basketball team, which won the longest game in the history of Southern Conference basketball against rival Virginia Military Institute. The main character of The Great Santini is Marine fighter pilot Colonel "Bull" Meecham, who dominates and terrorizes his family. The character is based on Conroy's father Donald. In 1995, Conroy published Beach Music, a novel about an American expatriate living in Rome who returns to South Carolina upon news of his mother's terminal illness. The story reveals his attempt to confront personal demons, including the suicide of his wife, the subsequent custody battle with his in-laws over their daughter, and the attempt by a film-making friend to rekindle old friendships which were compromised during the days of the Vietnam War. Pat Conroy is without doubt America's favorite storyteller, a writer who portrays the anguished truth of the human heart and the painful secrets of families in richly lyrical prose and unforgettable narratives. Now, in Beach Music, he tells of the dark memories that haunt generations, in a story that spans South Carolina and Rome and reaches back into the unutterable terrors of the Holocaust. Beach Music is about Jack McCall, an American living in Rome with his young daughter, trying to find peace after the recent trauma of his wife's suicide. But his solitude is disturbed by the appearance of his sister-in-law, who begs him to return home, and of two school friends asking for his help in tracking down another classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protester and never resurfaced. These requests launch Jack on a journey that encompasses the past and the present in both Europe and the American South, and that leads him to shocking--and ultimately liberating--truths. Told with deep feeling and trademark Conroy humor, Beach Music is powerful and compulsively readable. It is another masterpiece in the legendary list of classics that his body of work has already become. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: Booksellers and other vitally interested parties can quit holding their collective breath: Conroy has not lost his touch. His storytelling powers have not failed; neither has his poetic skill with words, nor his vivid imagination. His long-awaited sixth book sings with the familiar elegiac Southern cadences, his prose is sweepingly lyrical, unabashedly sentimental. The hero, Jack McCall, describes himself as a man on the run from his past: the suicide of his beloved wife; the destructive influence of his icy, manipulative mother and mean, bullying, alcoholic father; the betrayal of his youthful ideals, his boyhood friends. There is, of course, the familiar theme of dysfunctional families; in addition to the McCalls, two other family units vie for the dubious title of most messed-up. But Conroy has added a new element here, by dramatizing his conviction that the `unbearable wound' of Vietnam was our country's spiritual Holocaust. Conroy takes on these emotionally laden issues in chapters so direct and powerful that readers will be moved by his intimacy with the material, and perhaps astonished by his authority over it. Conroy meshes complex plot lines with ease. Jack, a food and travel writer, fled with his toddler daughter, Leah, to Rome in 1982 in the wake of his wife Shyla's suicidal jump from a bridge in Charleston, S.C., and her parents' subsequent lawsuit to deny him custody of Leah. He returns home some years later because his mother is dying of leukemia. In addition to becoming embroiled in family tension, he begins a slow process of reconciliation with Shyla's parents, who eventually tell him the stories of their respective Holocaust experiences; with his first love, Ledare Ashley, now a scriptwriter employed by their youthful chum, Mike Hess, to write a screenplay of their growing-up years; and with his parents and siblings. He witnesses the return to Waterford of another friend, Jordan Elliot, who has been presumed dead for 18 years after he was accused of murder during a protest against the Vietnam War, and who was betrayed by the fourth member of their boyhood clan, Capers Middleton, who is now running for governor of South Carolina. The book is always passionately sincere. Conroy's dark humor has its usual sardonic edge, and his characters' rat-a-tat repartee is laden with casual obscenities and jocular insults. As expected, the characters are larger than life-impossibly beautiful, romantic, witty; in particular, Jack's precocious daughter may seem too mature, sweet, graceful, poised and smart to be true. In the end, of course, as Jack understands that everybody in his life carries a tragic secret equal to the anguish he bears, he achieves healing in the very community, and the very South, he had been determined to leave forever.

Publisher: Doubleday, 1995 New York, New York, U.S.A. : Doubleday, 1995. Signature by author laid in. First Edition/First Printing. Fine book with Fine jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As new. First edition. Includes dust jacket is protected in an acid-free archival quality acetate cover.

Signed. First Edition. Stated First edition. Signed and inscribed by Pat Conroy on title page. Jacket in Very Good condition in mylar cover. No markings on text. Crease on foredge of 2 pages. Minor suffle on bottom foredge. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Fri.

New York: Doubleday, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by the author: "To Mary, for the love of writing. Pat Conroy.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1995. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. First Edition/First Printing. Near Fine book with price clipped jacket. Brodart protected. Ships in a box.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.