South of Broad

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#1 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 South of Broad ?Vintage Pat Conroy . . . a big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage.??The Washington Post ?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