South of Broad(2009)

Pat Conroy

This edition contains a South of Broad discussion guide and an excerpt from Pat Conroy's 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 high school 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 a masterpiece from a great American writer whose passion for life and language knows no bounds.