South of Broad
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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
… More »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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Add a Commenta good book
I agree with MartiniHigh re: over the top descriptions of Charleston. They continued throughout the entire book - enough already! I was the opposite of chanters in that there was too much witty banter for me in the first part of the book (no one has that many great comebacks!) but I enjoyed the last 2/3 of the book much more. Perhaps I'd gotten used to it. The main character was unbelievable, he was so nice; but I liked that so much - he never turned his back on anyone (except he probably should've turned it on his wife - the Catholic guilt thing was a bit much).
One of the best writer's of our time.
Love it - didn't want it to end. Fabulous descriptions, great story!
Pat Conroy writes in such a way that part of you identifies in some way to each character. So many of his thoughts are ones you have had, but never been able to put words to. Prince of Tides and South of Broad were both "page turners," even "My Readings" was that way, but in a different sense.
I enjoyed the witty banter at first. The first third of the book was the best. I skipped most of the 2nd third and read the last two chapters. I wouldn't recommend this book, unless you enjoy long winded descriptions and odd ball characters. A lot of the time I felt Conroy was just writing to write and wasn't really going anywhere. Not for me.
If you love Charleston, South Carolina...a must read book. Writing is beautiful phrases and description.
Conroy's at it again with the verbose and never ending descriptions of Charleston... the smell of the rivers, the gardens, etc. Enough with all the flowery wordiness!!! And enough with rapacious fathers, nerds with witty banter, and all the southern stereoptypes you could wish for.