South of Broad, a novel, Pat Conroy
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South of Broad, a novel, Pat Conroy
Language
eng
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Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
South of Broad
Oclc number
264669827454407
Responsibility statement
Pat Conroy
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Accelerated Reader AR, UG, 5.8, 29.0, 136468.
Sub title
a novel
Summary
The narrator, Leopold Bloom King, 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 respected Joyce scholar. After Leopold's older brother commits suicide at the age of ten, 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 the 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, as well as 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
Target audience
adult
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South of Broad
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