The Lost Prince: A Search for Pat Conroy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781640091498)

"In The Lost Prince Michael Mewshaw sets down one of the most gripping stories of friendship I've ever read." --Daniel Menaker, author of My Mistake: A Memoir

Pat Conroy was America's poet laureate of family dysfunction. A larger-than-life character and the author of such classics as The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, Conroy was remembered by everybody for his energy, his exuberance, and his self-lacerating humor.

Michael Mewshaw's The Lost Prince is an intimate memoir of his friendship with Pat Conroy, one that involves their families and those days in Rome when they were both young--when Conroy went from being a popular regional writer to an international bestseller. Family snapshots beautifully illustrate that time. Shortly before his forty-ninth birthday, Conroy telephoned Mewshaw to ask a terrible favor. With great reluctance, Mewshaw did as he was asked--and never saw Pat Conroy again.

Although they never managed to reconcile their differences completely, Conroy later urged Mewshaw to write about "me and you and what happened . . . i know it would cause much pain to both of us. but here is what that story has that none of your others have." The Lost Prince is Mewshaw's fulfillment of a promise.

Author: Michael Mewshaw
ISBN-10: 1640091491
ISBN-13: 9781640091498
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Language: English
Published: 02/26/2019
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
BookPage 03/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 10/22/2018
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2018
Booklist 01/01/2019 pg. 30