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PAT CONROY |
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Pat Conroy uses stories to explore the great themes of life. His honesty and his remarkable command of the language of the heart have won him devoted readers around the world. |
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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. |
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