South of Broad, by Pat Conroy
Fate comes at you cat-footed, unavoidable, and bloodthirsty. For me, Leo King , it arrives camouflaged as a moving van, an orphanage, and a drug bust south of Broad in South Carolina’s Charleston in 1969, the summer before my senior year in high school. In literary novel SOUTH OF BROAD, I bond with terrified and abused teens, my football team’s black co-captain, and a pedigreed Charlestonian couple to form intertwined lifelong friendships that endure the AIDS epidemic, marital infidelities, Hurricane Hugo, and a savage murder. It’s a magical year: the year I come alive, the year I find my worth.
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NOTE: The first sentence and much of the second in this pitch example are the words of the author and are taken directly from the book.
NOTE: The above is a sample pitch I wrote for instructional purposes only. This “pitch” was written after the book was published and was never used by the author or anyone else to actually pitch a book.
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