Pat Conroy

Our Lifelong Friendship

De: Bernie Schein

Narrado por: Brian Troxell

For Pat Conroy fans, a loving, laughter-filled homage to a loyal, big-hearted friend.

Pat Conroy, the bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini among many other books, was beloved by millions of readers. Bernie Schein was his best friend from the time they met in a high-school pickup basketball game in Beaufort, South Carolina, until Conroy’s death in 2016. Both were popular athletes but also outsiders as a Jew and a Catholic military brat in the small-town Bible-Belt South, and they bonded. Wise ass and smart aleck, loudmouths both, they shared an ebullient sense of humor and romanticism, were mesmerized by the highbrow and reveled in the low, and would sacrifice entire evenings and afternoons to endless conversation. As young teachers in the Beaufort area and later in Atlanta, they were activists in the civil rights struggle and against institutional racism and bigotry. Bernie knew intimately the private family story of the Conroys and his friend’s difficult relationship with his Marine Corps colonel father that Pat would draw on repeatedly in his fiction.

A love letter and homage, and a way to share the Pat he knew, this book collects Bernie’s cherished memories about the gregarious, welcoming, larger-than-life man who remained his best friend, even during the years they didn’t speak. It offers a trove of insights and anecdotes that will be treasured by Pat Conroy’s many devoted fans.

©2019 Bernard Schein (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Worth the listen

An honest and compelling recounting of their best friendship. Pat Conroy would be proud that he didn’t pull his punches. Thanks Bernie!

Soup snakes

Anyone who’s actually read , my exaggerated life by Katherine Clark, anyone that has read The Death of Santino, will realize that Mr. SHEIN (along with Nan Taleaze ) we’re Mt. Conroy’s truth tellers, soul mates and treasured friends. Mr. Shein is not profiting off using Mr. Conroy‘s name. This is a love letter to Pat Conroy from a best friend l, someone who loved him more than anyone else, that loved him when no one else did. This book is a tribute to Pat conroy and I loved it.

Broadened my understanding

I enjoyed this. Deepened my understanding of Pat and, now Bernie’s, life and how the two intertwined wonderfully. Getting to know the stories behind the great stories that I love and the inspiration for them has thrilled me. Thanks, Bernie