Book news: Conroy returns to the Holy City
By Dave
December 31st, 2008 | Leave a comment
Fans of Pat Conroy have something to look forward to in 2009 – a new novel by the author of The Prince of Tides and Beach Music.
Set in Charleston, S.C. (as usual), South of Broad spans roughly 20 years following the lives of a group of high school friends from the Holy City. It features a fictional serial killer and the very real Hurricane Hugo, which caused devastating damage to the low-lying seaport and surrounding communities in 1989. (Your humble editor was a copy editor in Myrtle Beach at the time and remembers those events quite vividly.)
If Conroy is true to form, this book will feature lots of Charleston’s charm and captivating descriptions of the South Carolina Lowcountry – it’s bound to be made into a movie and just as likely to touch off a substantial tourism boom in and around Charleston.
Blogger Sean Scapellato, a Charleston resident, writes: “The novel will be big, epic, like the others (final book weighs in somewhere around 600 pages). Stylistically, Pat remains acute in his sensitivity, sprawling in his images, and is still the overwriting show-off that I love him for–except even better. He continues to grow as a writer, a claim he’s shy about, but one I think is true.”
To see the blog, CLICK HERE.
Unless, like Scapellato, you’re privy to advance edits of the book, you’ll have to wait until August or September for South of Broad to hit bookstores.
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