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A Man in Full Hardback - 1998

by Tom Wolfe

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A decade ago, "The Bonfire of the Vanities" defined an era--and established Tom Wolfe as a major fiction chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. In his new novel, set in present-day Atlanta, Wolfe shows readers the disparate worlds of contemporary America, as he chronicles the story of an event that shatters the city's delicate racial balance.

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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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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

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  • Title A Man in Full
  • Author Tom Wolfe
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st/1st
  • Pages 742
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
  • Publication date 1998-11-12
  • Features Dust Cover, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780374270322 / 0374270325
  • Weight 2.6 lbs (1.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.56 x 6.68 x 2.1 in (24.28 x 16.97 x 5.33 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Deep South
    • Cultural Region: South Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: Georgia
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Politics, Practical
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98029842
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 11/15/1998, Page 548
  • Library Journal, 11/15/1998, Page 93
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 07/01/1998, Page 70
  • New York Times, 11/08/1998, Page 17
  • NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 01/01/1999, Page 71
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/09/1998, Page 58
  • Publishers Weekly Best Books, 01/01/1998, Page 42

About the author

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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