num_pages: 310
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Water Is Wide
titlecomplete: The Water Is Wide
genres: Classics, Autobiography, History, Education, Southern, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Teaching
ratings_count: 23984
places: Yamacraw Island
awards: awardedAt: 94723200000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback