Urn:lcp:southofbroad00patc:lcpdf:72f828e8-daf0-4747-be1e-c24827cc3475 South of Broad by Pat Conroy: 9780385344074 : Books 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage (The Washington Post) by the celebrated author of. 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.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:57:00 Boxid IA176901 Boxid_2 CH101201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid_2 X0001 DonorĬityofsausalitolibrary Edition Dial Press trade pbk. But the final test of friendship that brings them to San Francisco is something no one is prepared for. 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. 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.

Your Web browser is not enabled for JavaScript. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce.

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. Pat Conroy Mark Deakins - 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. Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school.

Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints.

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