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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
“Vintage Pat Conroy . . . a big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage.”
—
“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