As he lay dying, Pat Conroy’s family eased him from this life into the next by reading poems, playing country music and singing to him. “We did sing the Marine Corps Hymn,” his sister Kathy ...

Editor's note: This review of the novel "Beach Music" was originally published in The Times on June 27, 1995. Pat Conroy ... to the creeks and moss-canopied country roads of South Carolina ...