Prologue The Mansion on the River It was my father who called the city the Mansion on the River. “A lovely, often thrilling story. South of Broad is Pat Conroy at his finest a long-awaited work from a great American writer whose passion for life and language knows no bounds. “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. Mariamma, a 12-year-old child bride, marries a 40-year-old widower and becomes the mistress of 500 acres of Parambil. 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. “A big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage” ( The Washington Post) by the celebrated author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini.
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