#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 sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of outsiders. 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.
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.
Praise for South of Broad "Vintage Pat Conroy . . . a big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage."
--The Washington Post "Conroy remains a magician of the page."
--The New York Times Book Review "Richly imagined . . . These characters are gallant in the grand old-fashioned sense, devoted to one another and to home. That siren song of place has never sounded so sweet."
--New Orleans Times-Picayune "A lavish, no-holds-barred performance."
--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "A lovely, often thrilling story."
--The Dallas Morning News "A pleasure to read . . . a must for Conroy's fans."
--Associated Press
Praise for
South of Broad "Conroy is an immensely gifted stylist.... No one can describe a tide or a sunset with his lyricism and exactitude."--Chris Bohjalian, The Washington Post
"Conroy writes with a momentum that's impossible to resist."--People, 3 of 4 stars.
"Beautifully written throughout.... Conroy is a natural at weaving great skeins of narrative, and this one will prove a great pleasure to his many fans."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Conroy is a master of American fiction and he has proved it once again in this magnificent love letter to his beloved Charleston, and to friendships that will stand the test of time."--
BookpagePraise for
Beach Music "Astonishing . . . stunning . . . the range of passions and subjects that brings life to every page is almost endless." --
Washington Post Book World
"Blockbuster writing at its best." --
Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Pat Conroy's writing contains a virtue now rare in most contemporary fiction: passion." --
Denver Post
"Reading Pat Conroy is like watching Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel." --
Houston Chronicle
"Incandescent."
--Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Grand." --
Boston Globe "Lyrical . . . evocative . . .
Beach Music is one from the heart, and it beats with a vibrancy that cannot be denied." --
Hartford Courant "Breathtaking . . . perhaps the most eagerly awaited book of the year . . . a knockout." --
Charlotte Observer "
Beach Music attains an almost ethereal beauty." --
Miami Herald "Few novelists write as well, and none as beautifully . . . Conroy's narrative is so fluid and poetic that it's apt to seduce you into reading just one more page, just one more chapter." --
Lexington Herald-Leader "Compelling storytelling . . . a page-turner . . . Conroy takes aim at our darkest emotions, lets the arrow fly, and hits a bull's-eye almost every time." --
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
