Description: Like New condition - see photos Big men. Big money. Big games. Big libidos. Big trouble. A decade ago, The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era--and established Tom Wolfe as our prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. This time the setting is Atlanta, Georgia--a racially mixed late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth, avid speculators, and worldly-wise politicians. 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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Signed: No
Custom Bundle: No
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Narrative Type: Fiction
Original Language: English
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Intended Audience: Adults
Edition: First Edition
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Type: Novel
Era: 1990s
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Features: Dust Jacket
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Book Title: Man in Full : a Novel
Number of Pages: 742 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication Year: 1998
Topic: Literary
Item Height: 1.8 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 44.3 Oz
Author: Tom Wolfe
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover