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.
Categories:
- Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
- Thrillers & Suspense
- Legal
- Thrillers & Suspense
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Author : Tom Wolfe
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :1998-11-12
Number Of Pages : 742
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0374270325
ISBN-13 : 9780374270322
Item weight : 2.6 lb
Dimensions : 2.24 in x 7.72 in x 10.63 in
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