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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385413053
Format: Deckle Edge
ISBN: 038541305X
Label: Nan A. Talese
Manufacturer: Nan A. Talese
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: August 11, 2009
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Studio: Nan A. Talese
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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.
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This novel is written in true Conroy style, exposing both the endearing and the evil that lurks in all our natures. There is of course a deep connection with anyone who was reared in the Deep South, but you don't have to be Southern to relate. Thanks again for another wonderful few days of reading.
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Couldnt wait to read. Pat Conroy is my favorite. This book had alittle bit of everything. Can so see it becoming a movie. Quick read. Long live "the Toad".
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I have to say "South of Broad" was the best book I've read since "Gone with the Wind". Took me a couple of tries to get into it but once I did, it was great - especially if you are from the South. Your characters were so real and true. Thanks, I loved it.
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There were glimpses of Conroy's voice in this novel, but for the most part, I couldn't find him. The first few chapters were so filled with purple prose, it was hard not to laugh at times..who is this writer masquerading as Conroy? Eventually, the excesses stopped and I could focus on the story, but I should have just put it down and re-read Prince of Tides.
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I've only read one chapter so far, because you want to read each line over again. His words are as rich as chocolate cake. I felt the same about "The Prince of Tides", one of my alltime favorites. With most books, I'm bored with the descriptions and I just want to get to the plot. With Pat Conroy, the descriptions enthrall me. I even read the first couple of paragraphs to my husband. No one writes like Pat Conroy. His words are gorgeous, and you never want them to stop.
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