![]() ![]() Fans of Conroy’s florid prose and earnest melodramas are in for a treat. Some characters are tragically lost to the riptides of love and obsession, while others emerge from the frothy waters of sentimentality and nostalgia as exhausted as most readers are likely to be. ![]() ![]() Dan John Miller brings a new audio edition to life with passion and attention to detail, and the author. 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. Too often the not-so-witty repartee and the narrator’s awed voice (he is very fond of superlatives) overwhelm the stories surrounding the group’s love affairs and their struggles to protect one another from dangerous pasts. Doubleday/Talese, 29.95 (514pp) ISBN 978-5-3. The story alternates between 1969, the glorious year Leo’s coterie stormed Charleston’s social, sexual and racial barricades, and 1989, when Sheba, now a movie star, enlists them to find her missing gay brother in AIDS-ravaged San Francisco. In the late ’60s and after his brother commits suicide, then 18-year-old Leo befriends a cross-section of the city’s inhabitants: scions of Charleston aristocracy Appalachian orphans a black football coach’s son and an astonishingly beautiful pair of twins, Sheba and Trevor Poe, who are evading their psychotic father. ![]() It ranges from his troubled childhood to his adult life with his close group of friends. The novel follows the life of Leopold Bloom King in Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston, S.C., gossip columnist Leopold Bloom King narrates a paean to his hometown and friends in Conroy’s first novel in 14 years. South of Broad is a 2009 novel by Pat Conroy. ![]()
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