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Pat Conroy Literary Center – Beaufort, SC
Beginning in April 2019, the Pat Conroy Literary Center Book Club will read and discuss all twelve of Pat Conroy’s published memoirs and novels in order of publication. Each monthly session will be led by a guest discussion leader and held at the Pat Conroy Literary Center. These events are free, but advance registration is required and seating is limited. Participants are asked to read the books before the meetings and to come prepared for discussion.
The fourth Conroy Center Book Club meeting will be led by Citadel English professor Sean Hueston as we discuss Pat Conroy’s second novel, The Lords of Discipline, published in 1980 and later adapted for film.
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About THE LORDS OF DISCIPLINE
In this powerful, mesmerizing, and acclaimed bestseller, Pat Conroy sweeps us into the turbulent world of four young men—friends, cadets, and blood brothers—and their days of hazing, heartbreak, pride, betrayal, and, ultimately, humanity. We go deep into the heart of the novel’s hero, Will McLean, a rebellious outsider with his own personal code of honor who is battling into manhood the hard way. Immersed in a poignant love affair with a haunting beauty, Will must boldly confront the terrifying injustice of a corrupt institution as he struggles to expose a mysterious group known as “The Ten.”
The Lords of Discipline shows us cadets desperate to prove they are men in a regimented, cruel world – and one determined to be a man in is own way, whose search for the truth ultimately leads him and his beloved friends into tragic conflict with a corrupt system.
Right in humor and suspense, abounding in a rare honesty and generosity of feeling, and written with magnificent force of language, this novel shows Pat Conroy to be one of the strongest fictional voices in a generation.
“If you are reading another book when you begin The Lords of Discipline, prepare to set it aside.”—The Denver Post
About Sean Heuston
Sean Heuston is a professor of English, fine arts, and communications at The Citadel. He has published scholarly articles in Journal of American Studies, Mississippi Quarterly, Studies in Popular Culture, Film and History Annual, International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Notes and Queries, and College Teaching. His book Modern Poetry and Ethnography: Yeats, Frost, Warren, Heaney, and the Poet as Anthropologist was named a Choice Distinguished Academic Title. He earned a B.A. in English from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; an M.A. in English from Stanford University; and a Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University. He has taught The Lords of Discipline at The Citadel since 2002.
