#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ¿*“A big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage” (The Washington Post) by the celebrated author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini * Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered-and shadowed-by tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of outsiders. Surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, as well as Charleston, South Carolina's dark legacy of racism and class divisions, these friends will endure until a final test forces them to face something none of them are prepared for. * Spanning two turbulent decades, South of Broad is Pat Conroy at his finest: a masterpiece from a great American writer whose passion for life and language knows no bounds. * Praise for South of Broad * “Vintage Pat Conroy . . . a big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage.”-The Washington Post * “Conroy remains a magician of the page.”-The New York Times Book Review * “Richly imagined . . . These characters are gallant in the grand old-fashioned sense, devoted to one another and to home. That siren song of place has never sounded so sweet.”-New Orleans Times-Picayune * “A lavish, no-holds-barred performance.”-The Atlanta Journal-Constitution * “A lovely, often thrilling story.”-The Dallas Morning News * “A pleasure to read . . . a must for Conroy's fans.”-Associated Press
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ¿*“A big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage” (The Washington Post) by the celebrated author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini * Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered-and shadowed-by tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of outsiders. Surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, as well as Charleston, South Carolina's dark legacy of racism and class divisions, these friends will endure until a final test forces them to face something none of them are prepared for. * Spanning two turbulent decades, South of Broad is Pat Conroy at his finest: a masterpiece from a great American writer whose passion for life and language knows no bounds. * Praise for South of Broad * “Vintage Pat Conroy . . . a big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage.”-The Washington Post * “Conroy remains a magician of the page.”-The New York Times Book Review * “Richly imagined . . . These characters are gallant in the grand old-fashioned sense, devoted to one another and to home. That siren song of place has never sounded so sweet.”-New Orleans Times-Picayune * “A lavish, no-holds-barred performance.”-The Atlanta Journal-Constitution * “A lovely, often thrilling story.”-The Dallas Morning News * “A pleasure to read . . . a must for Conroy's fans.”-Associated Press
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