Book #23076

The Boo

Pat Conroy
The Boo. Pat Conroy.
The Boo
The Boo

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: Signed by Author
Size: 8vo
Publisher: Atlanta: Old New York Book Shop Press, 1996.
ISBN: 0937036021

One of 500 copies of the signed 13th anniversary edition in Fine condition, signed by author Pat Conroy with added "The Boo" on tipped-in page.

"In 1961, Lt. Colonel Nugent Courvoisie accepted the job as assistant commandant of cadets at The Citadel, the military college of South Carolina. During the next seven years, The Boo, as the cadets called him, was in charge of meting out punishment to those young men accused of breaking Citadel law". (From the dust jacket). Pat Conroy is a 1967 graduate of The Citadel; 174 pages.

Price: $260.00

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Author Bio

Conroy, Pat

Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy, born October 26, 1945 as the first of seven children of a young career military officer from Chicago and a Southern beauty from Alabama, is a New York Times bestselling author who has written several acclaimed novels and memoirs. Two of his novels, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, were made into Oscar-nominated films. He is recognized as a leading figure of late-20th century Southern literature.

Conroy currently lives in Beaufort, South Carolina with his wife Cassandra King, author of four popular novels.

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