Pat Conroy
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 440 pages Rating: 4.14 | 29092 Users | 1225 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Great Santini |
| ISBN: | 0553268929 (ISBN13: 9780553268928) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Atlanta, Georgia(United States) |
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Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He's all Marine --- fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife -- beautiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool head, her kids would be in real trouble. Ben is the oldest, a born athlete whose best never satisfies the big man. Ben's got to stand up, even fight back, against a father who doesn't give in -- not to his men, not to his wife, and certainly not to his son. Bull Meecham is undoubtedly Pat Conroy's most explosive character -- a man you should hate, but a man you will love.Describe About Books The Great Santini
| Title | : | The Great Santini |
| Author | : | Pat Conroy |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 440 pages |
| Published | : | December 1st 1987 by Bantam (first published 1976) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. American. Southern |
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Ratings: 4.14 From 29092 Users | 1225 ReviewsAppraise About Books The Great Santini
This semi-fictional story is Pat Conroy's time growing up in Beaufort, South Carolina. I say "semi-fictional" because he transposed much of his life during that time (as a teenager) into the story's main character, Ben Meechum. It is a story of frustration, abuse, confusion, loyalty, and the hard road of growing up in a dysfunctional family. I enjoyed this book over the Prince of Tides, but not as much as The Lords of Discipline!Re-read this with On the Southern Literary Trail. The difference from reading this as a young woman with family in the military, and then as an older woman after serving in the Navy as an officer and also being married to a Naval officer and raising kids both while on active duty for 12 years & as a "dependent" wife overseas gave me so many different perspectives. I went through training, I served with Marines, I went to chief's initiations, officer happy hours, Mess Dinners, Navy &
Bull Meecham is undoubtedly Pat Conroys most explosive charactera man you should hate, but a man you will love. -cover summaryI did not love him, there was only hate in my heart.
This is the only Conroy book that I've ever read.It's been 25 years ago. I've not read it since. This thing broke my heart. It really did. It took me years to dispel the pain of these people. All these years later, I can't remember their names, but I still recall the pain. I've never read Pat Conroy since then. I'm probably doing myself a disservice, but I don't like being heartbroke. Once bitten, twice shy.
Lt Col Bull Meecham is a Marine fighter pilot No he is the GREATEST Marine Fighter Pilot. Just ask his family or any of the men serving under him. This novel gives us a glimpse of one Marines family. Lillian is the gentle, Southern-born wife who tempers her husbands erratic drive with a cool, steady demeanor. She is the buffer between Bull and their children. But as their first-born, Ben, moves toward high school graduation, he is increasingly at odds with his father. No matter how he excels
"They love their families with their hearts and souls and they wage war against them to prove it."Marines - and specifically Bull Meechum, "... the greatest marine fighter pilot to ever crap between two shoes!" - are fierce and loyal, difficult and unpredictable; they rule by fear, demand respect, and inspire admiration. It's not easy to be a marine family, but it is especially difficult to be the family of Bull Meechum, the self-proclaimed Great Santini. This is really the coming-of-age story
This is the only Conroy book that I've ever read.It's been 25 years ago. I've not read it since. This thing broke my heart. It really did. It took me years to dispel the pain of these people. All these years later, I can't remember their names, but I still recall the pain. I've never read Pat Conroy since then. I'm probably doing myself a disservice, but I don't like being heartbroke. Once bitten, twice shy.
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