The Water Is Wide | Related Titles
In one sense, all of Conroy's works are related by place (coastal South Carolina), by dysfunctional families, and by their autobiographical elements. The canon of Conroy's work reveals a family chronicle; the names of the characters may change from book to book, but the evolving psychological portraits taken as a whole portray Conroy's principal theme of the relationship of the alienated individual to family and society.
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