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wrote on November 20, 2019
As others are at this website, I am a long time fan of Pat Conroy's writing. As he said about John Irving and Richard Russo that they couldn't write a grocery list without it being a literary masterpiece, I feel the same about Pat Conroy. To me he mastered what he set out to do to "create winged and roaring sentences, the kind that would set the language free and make people come to my house and sit on my knee and listen to the song I was born to sing." [from My Losing Season] He can write sentences and tell stories that touch my heart and soul. Also from My Losing Season, "As I crossed midcourt, Buisson was waiting for me as though I were a pizza he had ordered by phone. He played me too close and he felt like wrapping paper when I went by him." As we approach the holiday season, I'll coin that phrase to say, Pat Conroy's words hold me close and they feel like wrapping paper when I read them. I know he is writing still in heaven.
Agency Reply:
Beth, this is wonderful...