Conroy, Pat
South of Broad a novel Pat Conroy - 1st ed. - New York Nan A. Talese Doubleday, c2009. - 514 p. 25 cm.
Leopold Bloom King, the 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.
9780385413053 (alk. paper) 038541305X (alk. paper)
2008045681
Brothers--Death
Runaway children
Grief
Twins
Charleston (S.C.)
Con 2
South of Broad a novel Pat Conroy - 1st ed. - New York Nan A. Talese Doubleday, c2009. - 514 p. 25 cm.
Leopold Bloom King, the 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.
9780385413053 (alk. paper) 038541305X (alk. paper)
2008045681
Brothers--Death
Runaway children
Grief
Twins
Charleston (S.C.)
Con 2