Bibliograph

South of Broad, [a novel], Pat Conroy

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South of Broad, [a novel], Pat Conroy

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

South of Broad

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Oclc number

327655054

Responsibility statement

Pat Conroy

Sub title

[a novel]

Summary

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. Eventually 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

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