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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…
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James Mitchner and Leon Uris were always my favorite writers, but after reading Prince of tides, My Losing Season, Beach Music, and South of Broad, Conroy joins that list. He is a Southerner who takes you to the Deep South, where he experiences tragedy and joy, and you live through it too. You become so engrossed in what he is writing about that it becomes almost painful to put the book down. My one regret is that I never had the opportunity to tell him how special a writer he is.
Pat Conroy was a master at conjuring characters and writing stories chock-full of emotion. Heck, even the way he describes his beloved state of South Carolina makes it seem like one of the characters in his novels. (Truth: I made my family go to South Carolina one summer after binge-reading Pat Conroy’s books.)
If forced to choose which of his novels is my favorite, I’d have to go with South Broad. With a lead character named Leopold Bloom, you just know it’s going to be good 😊 As Leopold’s life is defined by unimaginable tragedy, he is drawn to a…
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