This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:
South of Broad
By Pat Conroy
Publication Date: August 11
From Random House:
"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 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. The ties among them endure for years, surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, and Charleston's dark legacy of racism and class divisions. But the final test of friendship that brings them to San Francisco is something no one is prepared for."
What's your "waiting on" pick this week?
Leave a comment with either the link to your own "Waiting On" Wednesday post or just your answer (if you don't have a blog).
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24 comments:
I read about this one Jill, it does look good. Thanks for reminding me to add it to my list. Here is my pick:
http://bibliophilebythesea.blogspot.com/2009/04/waiting-of-wednesday-wish-maker-ali.html
Hmm that sounds kind of interesting!
Here's mine:
http://aleapopculture.blogspot.com/2009/04/waiting-on-wednesday-24.html
That sounds like quite a book! I'll be watching for it.
Here's mine.
Sounds like a good one!
Here's mine.
The Burton Review has hers up!
This one sounds good - I picked another southern novel for mine at:
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South of Broad sounds really good - I had not heard of it before. Thanks for sharing! My pick is here.
That book looks interesting. I'm going to add it to my list. I posted on my blog what I'm waiting on.
Oh my gosh! I didn't know Pat Conroy has a new book coming out. That's fantastic news.
I hadn't heard of this one before, but I love books about friendship.
Here's my post.
For the first week in April, here's mine!
great choice!
here is mine:
http://kissmybook.blogspot.com/2009/04/waiting-on-wednesday-perfect-fifths.html
Wow. Sounds like something you could really sink your teeth into!
I've just posted mine -- be nice -- I'm a fledgling blogger!
http://aseaofbooks.blogspot.com/2009/04/waiting-on-wednesday-and-waiting-and.html
That does sound pretty good...I'll put it on my wishlist :)
Here's mine : http://readerrabbit.blogspot.com/2009/03/waiting-on-wednesday-tuesday.html
This is my pick! :)
That's a beautiful cover!
Here's mine:
http://creativitygone.blogspot.com/2009/04/day-117-waiting-on-wednesday-6.html
Sounds interesting!
Here's Mine:
http://mindingspot.blogspot.com/2009/04/waiting-on-wednesday.html
Mine this week was All Was Know of Heaven.
I haven't read a book by Conroy.
My post is HERE.
Here's mine for this week http://rebeccasbookblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/waiting-on-wednesday-daughters-of-sea-1.html
this sounds like a good book!
mine is really late, but here's my entry:
http://kayleesbookshelf.blogspot.com
-Kaylee.
Hiya,
this week's choice sounds amazing. I will have to look into it.
Here is my choice
Don't know if you have the book yet or not, but I just finished it last week and loved it! Posted my review a few minutes ago.
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