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Title
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 South of Broad : a novel / Pat Conroy.
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Author
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Conroy, Pat.
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Owning Libraries
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All items
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Edition
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1st ed.
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Publisher
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New York : Nan A. Talese : Doubleday, c2009.
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Description
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514 p. ; 25 cm.
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Summary
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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 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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Subject - Lib.Cong.
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Brothers -- Death -- Fiction.
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Charleston (S.C.) -- Fiction.
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Subject - Other
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Bildungsromans.
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ISBN
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9780385413053 (alk. paper)
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038541305X (alk. paper)
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