The Great Santini

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 536p octavo. a bit of wear to one corner otherwise a very good copy in very good dust jacket. This book belonged to an extra in the movie version of this book who played a cheerleader who went to as many actors as she could capture including Robert Duvall (Nominated for Best Actor), Blythe Danner, Michael O'Keefe (nominated for best supporting actor), Lisa Jane Persky, Director Lewis J Carlino, five other minor actors, 2 stuntmen, make-up artist, hair stylist, local casting director, 15 extras and of note Pat's mother Peggy Conroy (Egan) and youngest sibling of Pat, Tom Conroy who played in the basketball scenes. Peggy was an extra as well. Inscriptions are to the cheer leader. The signatures begin on the half title and continue on 5 more pages. plus on the last page of the novel are signatures of 13 extras who played in the basketball game with the numbers they were wearing on their backs. One is of Tom Conroy Pat's brother. NOT SIGNED BY PAT CONROY but comes with another book that is inscribed by Pat and Don Conroy the Great Santini and the subject of the book. Pat gives a supportive inscription and Don his usual humorous criticism of the book. The book is inscribed to Joe Dabney an Atlanta author who wrote about food and drink in the mountains of North Georgia. Dabney won a James Beard Award for "Smokehouse Ham, Spoon bread & Scuppermong Wine". A very good copy in a good dust jacket with some wear to the spine heads, jacket with a scratch on the front panel, plus a mark across the foredge that is a stamping of some sort and not a remainder mark.