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The publishing event of the growing season: The best Pat Conroy profits, with a major, sprawling book that reaches once a love notice to Charleston and also to lifelong camaraderie.

Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, SC, South of Large gathers a unique ensemble of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the child associated with an amiable, loving daddy who teaches research at the neighborhood high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school primary and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family challenges with the shattering ramifications of his loss of life, and Leo, unhappy and isolated, searches for something to maintain him. Eventually, he locates his answer when he becomes part of any tightly knit band of high school seniors which includes friends Sheba and Trevor Poe, glamorous twins with an alcoholic mother and a prison-escapee daddy; hardscrabble pile 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 Assists crisis in the 1980s.

The ties among them endure for years, surviving relationships happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and damaging breakdowns, and Charleston's dark legacy of racism and course divisions. But the final test of camaraderie that brings these to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA is something nobody is well prepared for. South of Large is Pat Conroy at his finest; a long-awaited work from a great American article writer whose passion forever and language is aware of no bounds.

From the Hardcover edition.

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