South of Broad
Subtitle: a novel
By: Pat Conroy.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Nan A. Talese; Doubleday; Transworld Publishers Limited
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780385413053
Subjects: Charleston (S.C.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.