DEAL OF THE DAY — Pat Conroy’s THE DEATH OF SANTINI, about his often abusive and complicated father’s final days, and Pat’s coming to terms with him (a Marine fighter pilot who inspired the novel The Great Santini, remembered by many for Robert Duvall’s Oscar-nominated film portrayal of him), to Steve Rubin and Nan Talese at Doubleday, in a major deal, for seven figures, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world).
