South of Broad : a novel

South of Broad : a novel / Pat Conroy.

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...

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Main Author: Conroy, Pat
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Nan A. Talese : Doubleday, c2009.
Subjects:
Brothers > Death > Fiction.
Charleston (S.C.) > Fiction.
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Summary: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, whose liaisons will ripple across two decades-from 1960s counterculture through the dawn of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
Physical Description:514 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:9780385413053 (alk. paper)
038541305X (alk. paper)

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