The Water Is Wide
Pat Conroy spent a year teaching black children on an impoverished island off the South Carolina coast.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Bantam
- Year
- 1987
- ISBN-13
- 9780553268935
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Education and teachingRacial inequalityRural poverty
Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWon(1973)
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