The Water Is Wide
Trade paperback edition in good condition. Some wear to cover. Fine reading copy.
“I learned that politicians are not supposed to help people. They simply listen to people, nod their heads painfully, commiserate at proper intervals, promise to do all they can, and then do nothing. I could probably have enlisted more action from a bleached jellyfish washed ashore in a seasonal storm.”
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 to him.
Trade paperback edition in good condition. Some wear to cover. Fine reading copy.
“I learned that politicians are not supposed to help people. They simply listen to people, nod their heads painfully, commiserate at proper intervals, promise to do all they can, and then do nothing. I could probably have enlisted more action from a bleached jellyfish washed ashore in a seasonal storm.”
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 to him.
Trade paperback edition in good condition. Some wear to cover. Fine reading copy.
“I learned that politicians are not supposed to help people. They simply listen to people, nod their heads painfully, commiserate at proper intervals, promise to do all they can, and then do nothing. I could probably have enlisted more action from a bleached jellyfish washed ashore in a seasonal storm.”
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 to him.
ISBN 0-553-38157-1
Pat Conroy
1972
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner