Издания и произведения

Лео Кинг родился в Чарлстоне, в сердце американского Юга. Трагическая смерть брата сделала его замкнутым и одиноким. И только поддержка школьных товарищей помогла ему выстоять. Они принадлежат к разным слоям общества, но учатся вместе. Их дружба выдержала испытания временем. В их жизни было все: неудачные и счастливые браки, блестящие, трудно выстраданные карьеры и финансовые крахи, неожиданно пришедшая любовь и тайное, невысказанное влечение. "Обрученные с Югом" - читающийся на одном дыхании роман, гимн дружбе, которую не заменить ни деньгами, ни властью, ни славой.

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 high school 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…

Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom King, our 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, and Leo, lonely and isolated, searches for something to sustain him. Eventually, he finds his answer when he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high school seniors that includes friends…