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    Tell Me A Story: My Life with Pat Conroy
    Tell Me A Story: My Life with Pat Conroy
    Tell Me A Story: My Life with Pat Conroy
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    Tell Me A Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

    Written by Cassandra King Conroy

    Narrated by Susan Bennett

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    Bestselling author Cassandra King Conroy considers her life and the man she shared it with, paying tribute to her husband, Pat Conroy, the legendary figures of modern Southern literature.

    Cassandra King was leading a quiet life as a professor, divorced “Sunday wife” of a preacher, and debut novelist when she met Pat Conroy.

    Their friendship bloomed into a tentative, long-distance relationship. Pat and Cassandra ultimately married, partly because Pat hated the commute 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.

    In 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateOct 29, 2019
    ISBN9780062960375
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    Cassandra King Conroy

    Cassandra King is an award winning and bestselling novelist whose fiction has won the hearts of readers everywhere, especially in the American south. Often told in first person, her novels portray strong and memorable characters who struggle with the same timely issues and dilemmas that readers face in their own lives. Before becoming an author, she has taught creative writing on the college level, conducted corporate writing seminars, and worked as a human interest reporter. The widow of acclaimed author Pat Conroy, Cassandra resides in Beaufort, South Carolina, where she is honorary chair of the Pat Conroy Literary Center.

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    • 5/5
      This memoir was really wonderful, especially liked the narrator. Helped me to understand Pat Conroy and his style of writing. I'm going to try and read one of her books.
    • 3/5
      While it remained interesting until the end, this seems to be more a story about serious illnesses among the author's loved ones and acquaintances--Pat Conroy's foremost. It presents a very personal picture of an 18 year marriage that succeeded against considerable odds--it was Conroy's third. There aren't that many insights into Conroy as a writer here, except that the book shows us he was Southern to the core. It did inspire me to go to Youtube to watch a speech Conroy gave to a small college in Georgia, as well as his commencement address at the Citadel in 2001. Both are impressive, and the first is hysterical. I guess Cassandra King Conroy has done us a favor at least by reminding us of her husband's greatness and inspiring us to read or re-read his work. But it still went on too long, and some aspects of the story really aren't quite believable. Judge for yourself. The narrator, Susan Bennett, however, was superb. Being from Alabama myself, her accent made me believe I was listening to the South Alabama-born author.
    • 2/5
      Tell Me a Story, My Life with Pat Conroy. Cassandra King Conroy. 2019. King relates her life with Conroy from the time they met until his death. For die-hard Conroy fans.
    • 5/5
      Amazing book, it made me laugh and cry. I just adore these two writers as a couple and am so grateful that I have had the pleasure of meeting both of them. I learned a lot about their relationship. I hope she continues to write books and would love to see more from Conroy posthumously.
    • 4/5
      This is an autobiographical story of noted author Pat Conroy's third wife chiefly from when they met and ending several months after his death. Anyone who loves Pat Conroy's books and wants to know about this gregarious larger than life author. There are lots of touching and humorous anecdotes that will only add to the Pat Conroy mystique. We also learn of Ms. Conroy's background and her development into a great author in her own right. She handles the delicate topics of his illness and death with the taste and sensitivity of a grieving wife.
    • 3/5
      A memoir of the author's eighteen years as the third and final wife of the iconic story-teller Pat Conroy. Interesting, but veers into travelogue category too often for my taste.