{"product_id":"the-lost-prince-isbn-9781640091498","title":"The Lost Prince","description":"\u003cb\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Prince\u003c\/i\u003e Michael Mewshaw sets down one of the most gripping stories of friendship I’ve ever read.” —Daniel Menaker, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Mistake: A Memoir\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ePat Conroy was America’s poet laureate of family dysfunction. A larger–than–life character and the author of such classics as \u003ci\u003eThe Prince of Tides\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Great Santini\u003c\/i\u003e, Conroy was remembered by everybody for his energy, his exuberance, and his self–lacerating humor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Mewshaw’s \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Prince\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate memoir of his friendship with Pat Conroy, one that involves their families and those days in Rome when they were both young—when Conroy went from being a popular regional writer to an international bestseller. Family snapshots beautifully illustrate that time. Shortly before his forty–ninth birthday, Conroy telephoned Mewshaw to ask a terrible favor. With great reluctance, Mewshaw did as he was asked—and never saw Pat Conroy again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough they never managed to reconcile their differences completely, Conroy later urged Mewshaw to write about “me and you and what happened . . . i know it would cause much pain to both of us. but here is what that story has that none of your others have.” \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Prince\u003c\/i\u003e is Mewshaw’s fulfillment of a promise.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Prince\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLong–listed for the 2020 PEN\/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Anyone who has lost a friend can relate to this compassionate but no–holds–barred memoir by Michael Mewshaw about his complicated relationship with Pat Conroy. A prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction, Mewshaw met Conroy in the 1980s when they were ex–pats in Rome. The book chronicles their decadeslong friendship.” —Suzanne Van Atten, \u003ci\u003eAtlanta Journal–Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 of 10 Southern Books We Want to Read This Year \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Michael Mewshaw is an exquisite writer, and \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Prince\u003c\/i\u003e is a gem traveling a path that is mostly unchartered.” —David Rothernberg, WBAI, \u003ci\u003eAny Saturday\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[A] resonantly poignant memoir . . . It is the remembrance of his Conroy experiences that forms the basis of this charming autobiographical story . . . The book's lasting value lies in Mewshaw's letting Conroy's vibrancy, whether striking the reader as a positive or negative factor, shine through.” —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“At heart, this fascinating memoir from Mewshaw . . . of his friendship with the late novelist Pat Conroy is a love story . . . An honest, eminently readable look at the fraught but rewarding bond between two writers.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Novelist and journalist Mewshaw's . . . portrait of his close friend Pat Conroy (1945–2016) is breezy, sympathetic, and affectionate . . . The book is full of wonderful anecdotes and vignettes about fellow writers . . . A fiercely honest and melancholy portrait of a 'protean figure who cast a large shifting shadow.'“ —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Prince\u003c\/i\u003e Michael Mewshaw sets down one of the most gripping stories of friendship I've ever read. With joy and sadness, and great psychological acuity, Mewshaw redeems and supersedes his often turbulent connection to Pat Conroy with the two qualities essential to all great stories: honesty and love.” —Daniel Menaker, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Mistake: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eThe Lost Prince: A Search for Pat Conroy\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about male bonding rituals and reversals, but it’s also about so much more than that. It’s about how perplexed and inadequately prepared we can be as characters who pop up in other people’s lives. It’s about unknowability and its repercussions. It’s a fluidly written, fascinating book about Michael Mewshaw and Pat Conroy caught in the crossbeams of past and present, fated to overlap, bond, retreat, and then—as Mewshaw clearly hopes—to unite in a different configuration a final time.” —Ann Beattie, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Accomplished Guest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Mewshaw\u003c\/b\u003e’s five–decade career includes award–winning fiction, nonfiction, literary criticism, and investigative journalism. He is the author of the nonfiction works \u003ci\u003eSympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBetween Terror and Tourism\u003c\/i\u003e; the novel \u003ci\u003eYear of the Gun\u003c\/i\u003e; and the memoir \u003ci\u003eDo I Owe You Something?\u003c\/i\u003e He has published in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and numerous international outlets. He spends much of his time in Key West, Florida.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304722387173,"sku":"NP9781640091498","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781640091498.jpg?v=1767740329","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-lost-prince-isbn-9781640091498","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}