"
The King of Lies moves and reads like a book on fire.... An amazing new talent."--a blurb from
Pat Conroy, on the cover of Southern-lawyer-turned-novelist
John Hart's debut novel, which comes heavily endorsed by the
Wall Street Journal.
I was thinking that Pat Conroy was the guy who whored himself to the cruise industry, as mentioned in David Foster Wallace's '
Shipping Out,' but, in fact, that was the late
Frank Conroy, a much more respectable writer (he taught at Iowa for years, and his
Stop-Time is quite good). Pat Conroy wrote
The Prince of Tides.
Prince of Tides,
King of Lies,
Queen of the Damned... fans of
books-turned-into-movies,
formulaic titles and naked greed, take note.