The Great Santini

Conroy, Pat

Publication: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. First Edition.

Notes: A semi-autobiographical novel of a son growing up in South Carolina in a family led by a hard-edged Marine. In the movie version, the Marine, Bull Meechum, is played by Robert Duvall.

536 pages.

Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing, with a numberline starting with C and ending in 1; why a "c", I don't know). Minor wear to the cloth. The jacket has been abraded at the rear flap fold and there is a bit of creasing to the jacket. This copy comes from the collection of the late Tom Garner of Texas and is inscribed to him, "To Tom, For the love of fathers. Pat Conroy."

Item No: #365302

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