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South of Broad

Conroy, Pat. Large Type - 2009 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 5 out of 5

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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 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
New York : Random House Large Print, c2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 749 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Large Type

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780739328446 (pbk.) :
0739328441 (pbk.) :

SUBJECTS
Bereavement -- Fiction.
High School students -- Fiction.
Charleston (S.C.) -- Fiction.
South Carolina -- Fiction.
Bildungsromans.