South of Broad

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. more

Price Range:$14.23 to $17.51 | 5 stores
Product Rating:

5 Reviews
Info:
Set Price Alert Save to Wish List
Tags:
Barnes & Noble, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Daedalus Books, HotBookSale.com

ComparePrices

title,desc	merchant	price	seeit
South of Broad The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once...	24 reviews	$14.23 Free Shipping	See it
South of Broad (Books) General Fiction - The publishing event of the season The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel...	Barnes & Noble	$30 $17.51 Coupon 2 coupons available Code:J7M3C9V Detail: 20% off single item when you use Master card at Barnes & Noble Expires:Dec-31-2009 Restriction:Unknow Code:No Code Required Detail: Free Shipping on orders of $25 at Barnes & Noble Expires:Jun-30-2010 Restriction:see site for more details	See it
South of Broad Pages: 528, Hardcover, Nan A. Talese	Amazon 11,406 reviews	$16.97 Coupon 1 coupon available Code:No Code Required Detail: FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon. Expires:Dec-31-2010 Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.	See it
Hardcover, South of Broad	Daedalus Books 2 reviews	$16.95	See it
Hardcover, South of Broad General Fiction - The publishing event of the season The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel...	Barnes and Noble 20 reviews	$17.51	See it

*Shipping costs are based on an estimate of the lowest shipping rate available within the contiguous US, excluding Alaska and Hawaii. Only merchants with this product in stock are listed (Merchants with this product back ordered have been removed from this list).

Do you see a pricing error? Please let us know by filling out a simple form: Click here

MoreStores

Write a review

ProductReviews89/100 (5 Reviews)

Recent Reviews

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-20-2009; Fabulous! worth the wait; I was delighted to receive my ARC of the book and immediately dove into it. As is typical of Conroy's style, the book winds along in a well-crafted tale. The poetic style of writing and his love of the area are evident in every page....; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-14-2009; Not as good as his other books; South of Broad centers around Leo King, otherwise known as "Toad' by his friends and enemies alike. Part of the book is set when "Toad" is in his late teens, and he's had a rough life. A family tragedy has caused a huge rift in his...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-12-2009; I would give this SIX or more stars if possible!; I was lucky to have a fairy godmother loan me an ARC of this book. But I will be buying my own copy and re-reading it on August 11....I loved it that much.SOUTH OF BROAD was simply A M A Z I N G and well worth the many years of waiting....; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-16-2009; Another Gift to the South; I read an advanced reader's copy of this new Conroy novel and must say that it is simply beautiful from the first line. The story, set in the late sixties till the nineties, mostly in Charleston, is centered on the life of Leo King. Born...; read full review | report as inappropriate

Selected Reviews

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-20-2009; Fabulous! worth the wait; I was delighted to receive my ARC of the book and immediately dove into it. As is typical of Conroy's style, the book winds along in a well-crafted tale. The poetic style of writing and his love of the area are evident in every page....; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-14-2009; Not as good as his other books; South of Broad centers around Leo King, otherwise known as "Toad' by his friends and enemies alike. Part of the book is set when "Toad" is in his late teens, and he's had a rough life. A family tragedy has caused a huge rift in his...; read full review | report as inappropriate