<![CDATA[South of Broad]]>

false <![CDATA[South of Broad]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255595850m/6135237.jpg 6135237 7 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. 6264122 book 11 8 2009 South of Broad total:1676|5:487|4:549|3:388|2:185|1:67| 1676 6232 3752 753 0 4 false false Sun Apr 19 13:53:37 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 13:20:10 -0700 2009 0 9 false false Wed Oct 14 02:19:27 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 20:34:09 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 02:19:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 07:08:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 18:57:25 -0700 2009
As he walks toward the Cooper River in 1990, six months after Hurricane Hugo tore into his beloved city, narrator Leo King ponders the city’s rebuilding and healing, and the coming spring: �...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 17:42:52 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 07 07:05:33 -0800 2009
I loved Pat Conroy's The Prince of Tides, and I think he is an immensely talented writer and storyteller. South of Broad, however, is not one of his best works. There were far too many jarring grammatical errors (which occured as early as page three)...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 12 11:52:32 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 11:53:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 08:20:02 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 08:28:40 -0800 2009 That said, this one left me puzzles. There were many loose ends that were never tied up, and "obl...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Nov 06 15:23:49 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 15:24:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 00:10:34 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 00:12:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Oct 28 06:11:10 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 06:33:19 -0700 2009
Where to start? Implausible plot e...more...]]> 2 3 false false Sat Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 20:22:05 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 20:54:22 -0700 2009
It hurts my heart to say this. South of Broad is the work of a man who has lost his mojo. It is a book that most likely only got into print because editors deferred...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 10:41:16 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 11:57:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 08:50:21 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 09:01:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 2 false false Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 13:29:45 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 15:26:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 4 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 13:00:03 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 13:27:06 -0700 2009
"South of Broad," coming after a long fiction absence for this author since the disappointi...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Sep 28 14:15:12 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 14:19:23 -0700 2009
Dear Mr. Conroy:

Your words are to my soul like a cardio vascular machine is to my body. My heart is exercised by the feelings invoked from your phrasing.

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Leo, our narrator, begins this novel as an isolated boy entering his senior year in highschool. His brother, the golden boy, committed suicide at age 13, and his fami...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 17:22:20 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 17:33:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 08:52:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 08:52:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 18:44:16 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 13:42:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 12:43:26 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 12:52:24 -0700 2009 once more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6135237