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Cargando... South of Broad: A Novel (edición 2010)por Pat Conroy
Información de la obraEl primer verano de nuestras vidas por Pat Conroy (Author)
   Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   Natt90 | Mar 24, 2023 |   ) emmacamba2 | Nov 7, 2014 | Leo es un chico solitario que añora a su hermana mayor, que se suicidó. Sheba y Trevor son gemelos atractivos, exóticos y talentosos que viven con su madre alcohólica. Niles y Starla son huérfanos de orígenes muy pobres. Ike es el hijo del primer entrenador negro del colegio, y Molly y Chad los hijos de familias adineradas y esnobs. Se volverán a reunir veinte años después, cuando Sheba les pide que busquen a Trevor, que se está muriendo de sida. kika66 | Feb 5, 2011 | BiblioPravia | Oct 22, 2010 |
 Conroy thanks his editor Nan A. Talese in his acknowledgments, but South of Broad merely adds urgency to the question of what it is this woman does, exactly, apart from pick up the tab.  Conroy remains a magician of the page. As a writer, he owns the South Carolina coast. But the descriptions of the tides and the palms, the confessions of love and loss, the memories “evergreen and verdant” set side by side with evocations of the “annoyed heart” have simply been done better — by the author himself. Conroy is an entertaining storyteller -- he has a corker of a final twist here -- yet much of “South of Broad” shows a weakness for emotional fireworks, two-dimensional characters and rough or purplish prose. Conroy reels his teenage characters through cliché showdowns of racial and class divisions, trying to make those broad social issues the backdrop to the personal stories in the narrative -- including the recurring presence of the shadowy and vicious Poe father. But Conroy doesn't have anything new or interesting to say about the racial and class divides. And too many of his characters are set up as types instead of fully fledged people, incapable, at times, of anything more than the most mundane of dialogues. DistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Leopold Bloom King, the 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. Eventually he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high school seniors that includes friends Sheba and Trevor Poe, glamorous twins with an alcoholic mother and a prison-escapee father; hardscrabble mountain 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 AIDS crisis in the 1980s. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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