TY  - BOOK
AU  - Conroy,Pat
TI  - South of Broad: a novel 
SN  - 0739328441 (pbk.)
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House Large Print
KW  - Charleston (S.C.)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Large type books
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - gsafd
N2  - 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
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