Pat Conroy

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... 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.

"Charleston, South Carolina. Il diciottenne Leopold Bloom King e figlio di un professore di fisica e di un''ex suora fanatica e studiosa di Joyce, che ha chiamato i due figli come i protagonisti dell''Ulisse. Dopo la morte del fratello, mentre la famiglia lotta per ritrovare il proprio equilibrio, il solitario Leo si lega a un nuovo gruppo di amici: Sheba e Trevor Poe, gemelli con una madre alcolizzata e un padre pericoloso, appena evaso di prigione; gli inquieti Niles e Starla Whitehead; i rampolli dell''alta societa Molly Huger e il suo fidanzato, Chadworth Rutledge X. Insieme, ""i ragazzi di Charleston"" attraversano due decadi di eventi collettivi e drammi privati, dagli anni Sessanta della controcultura a quelli piu recenti della grande paura aids: il loro legame sopravvivera a matrimoni felici o fallimentari, amori non corrisposti e passioni mai dichiarate, successi clamorosi e sconfitte brucianti. Ma l''ultima prova di amicizia, che riunira tutti a San Francisco, e qualcosa cui nessuno di loro sara preparato. "

"Jai détesté mon père bien avant de savoir quil existait un mot pour la haine."Ce livre en forme de mémoires se lit comme un roman. Pat Conroy, auteur acclamé du Prince des Marées, revient ici sur sa

1969. Dans une Amérique agitée par le mouvement pour les droits civiques, Pat Conroy accepte un poste d’enseignant sur une petite île isolée. L’endroit est envoûtant, presque désert et séparé du res

Rarement œuvre m’aura autant absorbée, aspirée.Un roman passionnant que je nai pas pu lâcher. Un exvcellent roman pour lété. Virginie GrimaldiDans le sillage des grands noms de la littérature du Sud

In 1954, in Orlando, Florida, nine-year-old Pat Conroy discovered the game of basketball. Orlando was another new hometown for a military kid who had spent his life transferring from one home to another; he was yet again among strangers, still looking for his first Florida friends, but when the new kid got his hands on the ball near the foul line of that unfamiliar court, the course of his life changed dramatically. From that moment until he was twenty-one, the future author defined himself through the game of basketball. In My Losing Season, Conroy takes the reader through his last year playing basketball, as point guard and captain of The Citadel Bulldogs, flashing back constantly to the drama of his coming of age, presenting all the conflict and love that have been at the core of his novels. He vividly re-creates his senior year at that now-famous military college in Charleston, South Carolina, but also tells the story of his heartbreaking childhood and of the wonderful series of events that conspired to rescue his spirit. With poignancy and humour Conroy reveals the inspirations behind his unforgettable characters, pinpoints the emotions that shaped his own character as a young boy, and ultimately recaptures his passage from athlete to writer.

Tom, Luke et Savannah Wingo ont été élevés à la dure, entre joies et tragédies, par un père pêcheur de crevettes, alcoolique et violent, et une mère fantasque et mythomane. Cest cette vie-là que va r

Tom, Luke et Savannah Wingo ont été élevés à la dure, entre joies et tragédies, par un père pêcheur de crevettes, alcoolique et violent, et une mère fantasque et mythomane. C'est cette vie-là que va