South of Broad : a novel / Pat Conroy.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Nan A. Talese : Doubleday, c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 514 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780385413053
- 038541305X
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Books | Fairmount Public Library Fiction | Fiction | F CON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | T 38297 |
Leopold Bloom King, the 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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