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The Water Is Wide is a memoir by Pat Conroy. It tells the story of a man, Pat Conway, who spends a year living on an island in order to teach the people there how to live without the use of the sea. The island is haunted by waste from industry, and the people are struggling to survive. Pat Conway is the only teacher the island has, and he spends a year trying to teach the people there how to live without the sea. The island's people are grateful to Pat Conway for his help, and he eventually returns to his home in America.
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.
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