A Man in Full by Wolfe, Tom

A Man in Full (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780374270322)

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A Man in Full by Wolfe, Tom

A Man in Full

$39.95
A Man in Full by Wolfe, Tom

A Man in Full

$39.95
Format: Hardcover
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Tom Wolfe's THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES defined an era and established Wolfe as our prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. In his #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist, A MAN IN FULL, the setting shifts to Atlanta, Georgia--a racially mixed late-century boomtown teeming with fresh wealth, avid speculators, and worldly-wise politicians."

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Big men. Big money. Big games. Big libidos. Big trouble.

The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real-estate entrepreneur turned conglomerate king, whose expansionist ambitions and outsize ego have at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 28,000-acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife--and a half-empty office tower with a staggering load of debt. When star running back Fareek Fanon--the pride of one of Atlanta's grimmest slums--is accused of raping an Atlanta blueblood's daughter, the city's delicate racial balance is shattered overnight.

Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real-estate syndicates, cast-off first wives of the corporate elite, the racially charged politics of college sports--Wolfe shows us the disparate worlds of contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most phenomenal, most admired contemporary novelist.

Praise for A Man in Full:

"A masterpiece." --The Wall Street Journal

"The novel contains passages as powerful and as beautiful as anything written--not merely by contemporary American novelists but by any American novelist. . . . The book is as funny as anything Wolfe has ever written; at the same time it is also deeply, strangely affecting." --The New York Times Book Review

Author: Tom Wolfe
ISBN-10: 0374270325
ISBN-13: 9780374270322
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English
Published: 11/12/1998
Pages: 742
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.60lbs
Size: 9.56h x 6.68w x 2.10d
Award: National Book Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/1998 pg. 70
Publishers Weekly 11/09/1998 pg. 58
New York Times 11/08/1998 pg. 17
Booklist 11/15/1998 pg. 548
Library Journal 11/15/1998 pg. 93
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1999 pg. 71
Publishers Weekly Best Books 01/01/1998 pg. 42
Library Journal 07/01/1998
By Tom Wolfe
By Tom Wolfe
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Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of contemporary classics like The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. As a reporter, he wrote articles for The Washington Post, the New York Herald Tribune, Esquire, and New York magazine, and is credited with coining the term, "The Me Decade." Among his many honors, Tom was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lived in New York City.

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