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from foof2you

An autobiographical story of when Conroy was a teacher on an island in South Carolina that was more interested in baby sitting than teaching the students. He tries many times to broaden his students horizons and meets continual resistance. I enjoyed this book

from lycomayflower

Conroy's memoir of the time he spent teaching on "Yamacraw Island," his fictional name for Daufuskie Island, off the coast of South Carolina in ~1969. His portraits of the people there and of teaching the African American children there is fascinating. Some other aspects of the book dragged a bit...

from tututhefirst

This poignant memoir tells of Conroy's early teaching career attempting to upgrade the educational experience of students in an all black school on poverty plagued Daufuskie Island (fictionalized in the book to Yamacraw Island). After teaching high school for a year, and being turned down by the ...

from tututhefirst

This poignant memoir tells of Conroy's early teaching career attempting to upgrade the educational experience of students in an all black school on poverty plagued Daufuskie Island (fictionalized in the book to Yamacraw Island). After teaching high school for a year, and being turned down by the ...

from Donna828

I loved the movie "Conrack" based on this true story of Pat Conroy's experience of teaching the black children who populated an isolated island off the coast of South Carolina in 1969-70. It was well done, but it couldn't capture the passion and profundity of Conroy's prose. He honestly described...