The Water is Wide (Paperback)
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Short Description for The Water is Wide Reissued in trade paper, this is the first-person account of the year spent by the author teaching black children on an impoverished island off the South Carolina coast.
Full description- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Published: 26 March 2002
- Format: Paperback 320 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Literary | Memoirs | Teaching Resources & Education | Philosophy & Theory Of Education
- ISBN 13: 9780553381573 ISBN 10: 0553381571
- Sales rank: 90,341
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Full description for The Water is Wide
The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families on Yamacraw island, America is a world away. For years the people here lived proudly from the sea, but now its waters are not safe. Waste from industry threatens their very existence–unless, somehow, they can learn a new life. But they will learn nothing without someone to teach them, and their school has no teacher. Here is PAT CONROY'S extraordinary drama based on his own experience–the true story of a man who gave a year of his life to an island and the new life its people gave him.
