The Prince of Tides: A Novel
by Pat Conroy
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Author: Pat ConroyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-10
ISBN: 0553381547
Number of pages: 704
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
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- ISBN13: 9780553381542
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of The Prince of Tides: A Novel
Book Review: 30% Great. 70% Good, But Less Filling
Summary: 4 Stars
I was spellbound for the 30% of the book set in New York. The culture clash between Tom Wingo, the main character, and the New Yawkas was fascinating. Loved Dr. Lowenstein, Bernard, grown-up Savanah, the whole Manhattan crowd.
The 70% of the book set in Carolina, not so much. A grim telling and retelling of myriad dark incidents in a seriously dysfunctional family. Not quite as dysfunctional as the Child Called It family, but close.
Much of the language is overly ornate, contrived; much of the rhetoric repetitive. [I was like, "Okay, you've explained to me for the 30th time that you are a person of the South Carolina low country. It's in your blood, your heart, your soul. I get it."] But when you can write like this, about New York, all is forgiven:
"In the falling light, the window became both mirror and fabulous portrait of a darkening city. The huge buildings of the lower city turned sapphire and rose in the descendent retreat of sunlight, then began to answer back with their own interior light. The city was laid out before me in a forest of transfigured architecture, devotional and splendid. The sun, exhausted, caught one building whole in its last sight and imparted the hues of a coral reef in a thousand grateful windows, then slid down that building from window to window, losing itself halfway down as the whole city rose like a firebird into the singing night. The city shook off the last foils of sunset and in a thrown-back, overreaching ecstasy transformed itself into an amazing candelabrum of asymmetrical light. From where I sat, in complete darkness now, the city looked as if it were formed from glass votive candles, lightning, and glowing embers. In the beauty of those rising geometrics and fabulous metamorphosed shapes, it seemed to enlarge the sunset, improve upon it."
Grade: B, overall.
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