My reading life

Summary: Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound effect reading has had on his life. Pat Conroy, the beloved American storyteller, is also a voracious reader. He has for years kept a notebook in which he notes words or phrases, just from a love of language. But reading for him is not simply a pleasure to be enjoyed in off-hours or a source of inspiration for his own writing...

Record details

ISBN: 9780307749239 (electronic audio bk.)
ISBN: 0307749231 (electronic audio bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 sound file : digital.
Edition: Library ed.
Publisher: New York : Books on Tape, 2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 07:52:42.
Formatted Contents Note:	The lily -- Gone with the wind -- The teacher -- Charles Dickens on Daufuskie Island -- The librarian -- The Old New York Book Shop -- The book rep -- My first writers' conference -- On being a military brat -- A southerner in Paris -- A love letter to Thomas Wolfe -- The Count -- My teacher, James Dickey -- Why I write.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by the author.
System Details Note:	Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 113222 KB; MP3 file size: 221964 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web.