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      The Water Is Wide

      by Pat Conroy
      Published
      Nov 1987
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      Literary Literary
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      336
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      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.


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