On Amazon the reviews were running wild with some verbal fist-fights between readers breaking out daily: the novels supporters on one side, and its detractors on the other side… Here is a review on South of Broad at that time: Therefore it’s going back to press, it already has for a few tens of thousands more copies.Īs we “speak” South of Broad is slated for #1 on New York Times best seller list of August 30th 2009 and pretty much on every other important list in the US. Here is a response when I asked about number of copies sold ‘so far’ : South of Broad hit all possible best seller list and is selling at a pass never seen “this side of Tom Clancy” so to speak. I remember the umpteen messages I handled at the time but there was news from the publisher who made us jump up and down. The combination of all these disparate elements bears the unmistakable makings of a spirit-shaping saga.” This one starts most promisingly: “Nothing happens by accident.”” The inimitable Nan Talese Pat’s editor who brought us the most incredible fiction from Pat’s mind and soul…Īnd then Booklist tops it all: “Conroy fleshes out the almost impossibly dramatic details of each of the friends’ lives in this vast, intricate story, and he reveals truths about love, lust, classism, racism, religion, and what it means to be shaped by a particular place, be it Charleston, South Carolina, or anywhere else in the U.S. The title refers, meaningfully, to a section of Charleston, S.C., and, as with so many Southern tales, one great story begets another and another.
“First novel in 14 years from the gifted spinner of Southern tales (Beach Music, 1995, etc.)-a tail-wagging shaggy dog at turns mock-epic and gothic, beautifully written throughout. South of Broad was, at the time of its launch in August 2009, one of the most controversial novels Pat Conroy ever wrote. Reviewers everywhere were split on its literary value but Kirkus Reviews managed to make sense of the many parallel running plots: Here signing South of Broad at Doubleday in 2009 with Random House “publicist extraordinary” Todd Daugherty who had a long and great relationship with Pat… Pat Conroy never tired of signing books for his readers.
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