And as the protagonist's father says: 'South of Broad is a conspiracy of platelets, son: blood and breeding are all that matter there. 'South of Broad' is an expression used to describe where the Charlestonian aristocracy live - and also their mindset, as the same writer would have known if she'd given enough attention to the novel. Googling won't do much good, and in fact will probably even confuse, as there's a rather odd online description of the expression by a writer who has obviously gotten the wrong end of the stick.
This is the first of his books that I've read, and the title in itself is intriguing.
a must for Conroy’s fans.There have been fifteen years between Pat Conroy's Beach Music (1995) and his latest novel, South of Broad (2009). a must for Conroy’s fans.” -Associated Press “A lovely, often thrilling story.” - The Dallas Morning News “A lavish, no-holds-barred performance.” - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution That siren song of place has never sounded so sweet.” -New Orleans Times-Picayune These characters are gallant in the grand old-fashioned sense, devoted to one another and to home. “Conroy remains a magician of the page.” - The New York Times Book Review a big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage.” - The Washington Post 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. 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. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of outsiders. Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered-and shadowed-by tragedy.
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