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COPY LINK TO DOWNLOAD : https://site.bookcenterapp.com/YUMPU/B002L7KSX4 Book Synopsis 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 f COPY LINK TO DOWNLOAD : https://site.bookcenterapp.com/YUMPU/B002L7KSX4

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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 f

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COPY LINK URL ON DESCRIPTIONThe publishing event of the season: The one and only PatConroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once alove letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.Against thesumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South ofBroad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. LeopoldBloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, lovingfather who teaches science at the local high school. Hismother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a wellknownJoyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commitssuicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with theshattering effects of his death, and Leo, lonely and isolated,searches for something to sustain him. Eventually, he finds hisanswer when he becomes part of a tightly knit group of highschool seniors that includes friends Sheba and Trevor Poe,glamorous twins with an alcoholic mother and a prisonescapeefather hardscrabble mountain runaways Niles andStarla Whitehead socialite Molly Huger and her boyfriend,Chadworth Rutledge X and an ever-widening circle whoseliaisons will ripple across two decades-from 1960scounterculture through the dawn of the AIDS crisis in the1980s. The ties among them endure for years, survivingmarriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspokenlongings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns,and Charleston's dark legacy of racism and class divisions. Butthe final test of friendship that brings them to San Francisco issomething no one is prepared for. South of Broad is PatConroy at his finest a long-awaited work from a greatAmerican writer whose passion for life and language knows nobounds.From the Hardcover edition.

South of Broad

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