South of Broad [sound recording] / Pat Conroy.
Material type:
SoundPublisher number: RHCD 2554 | Random House AudioPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Random House Audio, p2009.Description: 16 sound discs (20 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0739382934
- 9780739382936
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Main Library | Audiobook | FICTION Conroy Pat | Available | 33111006272187 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
#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
From the Hardcover edition. "
Compact discs, digital recording.
Unabridged.
Read by Mark Deakins.
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. 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.