- Fiction, Brothers and sisters, Social life and customs, Twins
PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the extraordinary family into which they were born.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Pat Conroy
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 665
- Publisher
- Euroclub, Curley Pub., recorded books
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9780552996921
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On Open Library, 16 have read it and 63 want to.
“It was five o'clock in the afternoon Eastern Standard Time when the telephone rang in my house on Sullivans Island, South Carolina.”
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