South of Broad
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Read by Mark Deakins.
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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PUBLISHED
Westminster, Md. : Books on Tape, p2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 16 sound discs (20 hr., 2 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781415965399
1415965390
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Deakins, Mark.
SUBJECTS
Suicide victims -- Family relationships -- South Carolina -- Fiction.
Bereavement -- Fiction.
High school students -- Fiction.
Charleston (S.C.) -- Fiction.
Bildungsromans.