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 exnun, is the high school principal and a wellknown Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of 13, 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 prisonescapee father; hardscrabble mountain runaways Niles and Starla Whitehead; socialite Molly Huger and her boyfriend, Chadworth Rutledge X; and an everwidening circle whose liaisons will ripple across two decadesfrom 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, hardwon 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 longawaited work from a great American writer whose passion for life and language knows no bounds.
Nicholas Sparks brings back two characters from his beloved best seller, True Believer, in this continuing saga of extraordinary love....
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Monroe tells the haunting and touching story of a longtime shrimp boat captain and his wife of 30 years on the day he is injured at sea....
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At 50, Pippa Lee seems just fine. She seems to glow with serenity. But when her older husband decides they should move into a retirement home, Pippa finds her personality changing....
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Robust country girl Emily Flanaghan and her countrymusic star brother, Sam, have been raised in the rugged Dargo High Plains by their mountain cattleman father, Rod....
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Astrid Bjorklund's opportunity for formal medical study in Chicago doesn't arrive until shortly after her heartthrob Joshua Landseer returns to Blessing, North Dakota....
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Jimmy Rabbitte Sr is facing the vicissitudes of unemployment when his friend Bimbo invites him to become his partner in a new venture....
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A renowned artist's model, Shay Morrison has posed nude to inspire great works of art. But hidden inside her, where no one can see, is the pain of a failed marriage....
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Who is about to disturb the peace in Prior's Ford? Actress Meredith Whitelaw, axed from a popular television soap, has descended upon Prior's Ford to 'rest'....
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Where the Line Bleeds is a rich tale of twins raised by their grandmother in a stiflingly poor rural community on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi....
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Daniel Pecan Cambridge, 30, 35, 38 or 27, depending on how he feels that day, is a young man whose life is rich and full, provided he never leaves his Santa Monica apartment...
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This novel centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich....
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Danny Deck Emma's friend from Terms of Endearment is a promising young writer losing touch with his talent and drifting from Texas to California because that's where all the writers are....
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The Moviegoer is the tale of Binx Bolling, a stockbroker who lives quietly in suburban New Orleans, pursuing an interest in the movies and affairs with his secretaries....
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Jane Whitefield, legendary halfIndian shadow guide who spirits hunted people away from certain death, has never had a client like Dr. Richard Dahlman....
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