01492cam a2200253 4500 361455198 TxAuBib 20090821120000.0 081023s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008045681 9780385413053 alk. paper 038541305X alk. paper (OCoLC)264669827 TxAuBib Conroy, Pat. South of Broad : a novel / Pat Conroy. 1st ed. New York : Nan A. Talese, 2009. 514 p. ; 25 cm. 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. 20091001. Charleston (S.C) Fiction. Bildungsromans.