The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection

by Pat Conroy

Southerners possess a simple yet magnificent obsession with all things military, and they love authority in all forms, masculine or feminine. They love to wear uniforms, shoot guns, wage war, march in parades, salute flags, and hold fast to traditions that should have died centuries before. Southerners have much in common with the rest of mankind.