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A Man in Full
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.
A Man in Full is a 1998 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
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Reviews
I can still pick A Man in Full up 16 years after I first read it, kick back on the full-recline club chair in my company's jet, and suddenly look up, 3 hours and 4,000 miles from where I started reading it.
By troyjjensen
Wolff at his best in an absorbing story with good characters and an intriguing story line. I enjoyed much more than Charlotte Simmons. Looking to read more Wolf soon...EAF
By Emmet Aloysius
Best book I've ever read the author paints such vivid characters and the storyline is so smooth and rich you can tell that a good portion of this mans life was spent creating this masterpiece a real work of art cover to cover
By Curtis Palmer
Wolfe nails Atlanta! The tension, ambition, race... All of it. Nails it.
By Kleveland11