The Great Santini.
"If you promise to hold your comments on my conduct at the "79" MC Ball, I'll refrain from making similar derogatory comments re your drinking habits and general conduct": First Edition of Pat Conroy's Classic The Great Santini; Signed by both Pat and Donald Conroy
The Great Santini.
CONROY, Pat.
$1,250.00
Item Number: 146097
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976.
First edition, second printing of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both Pat Conroy and his father Donald Conroy on the title and half-title pages respectively. Lengthily inscribed by Donald Conroy on the half-title page, “1/5/80 To Jimmy Barousse: If you promise to hold your comments on my conduct at the “79” MC Ball, I’ll refrain from making similar derogatory comments re your drinking habits and general conduct. Seriously My Best Don Conroy Col USMC (Ret).” Marine Colonel Donald Conroy was a Marine Corps fighter pilot, and the basis for the protagonist in this novel. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. A unique example.
“Reading Pat Conroy is like watching Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel" (Houston Chronicle). The Great Santini was made into the film written and directed by Lewis John Carlino, starring Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, and Michael O'Keefe.
