The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy
returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter
to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.
Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina,
"South of Broad" gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints.
Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving
father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an
ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce
scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of
thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his
death, and Leo, lonely and isolated, searches for something to
sustain him. Eventually, he finds his answer when he becomes part
of a tightly knit group of high school seniors that includes
friends Sheba and Trevor Poe, glamorous twins with an alcoholic
mother and a prison-escapee father; hardscrabble mountain runaways
Niles and Starla Whitehead; socialite Molly Huger and her
boyfriend, Chadworth Rutledge X; and an ever-widening circle whose
liaisons will ripple across two decades-from 1960s counterculture
through the dawn of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
The ties among them endure for years, surviving marriages happy and
troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won
successes and devastating breakdowns, and Charleston's dark legacy
of racism and class divisions. But the final test of friendship
that brings them to San Francisco is something no one is prepared
for." South of Broad" is Pat Conroy at his finest; a long-awaited
work from a great American writer whose passion for life and
language knows no bounds.
"From the Hardcover edition."
General
| Imprint: |
Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
May 2010 |
| First published: |
May 2010 |
| Authors: |
Pat Conroy
|
| Dimensions: |
209 x 130 x 29mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
524 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-385-34407-4 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-385-34407-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780385344074 |
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