Tom Wolfe

A Man in Full (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 742
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781429960694
• Artikelnr.: 39953636

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Tom Wolfe

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#1 New York Times bestseller

A masterpiece. The Wall Street Journal

Superior . . . utterly engrossing. USA Today

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

Wolfe is a peerless observer, a fearless satirist, a genius in full. People

Also by Tom Wolfe:

The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
From Bauhaus to Our House
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
The Painted Word
The Right Stuff
Mauve Gloves & Madmen
Clutter & Vine
In Our Time
The Pumphouse Gang
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

Available wherever Bantam Books are sold

#1 New York Times bestseller

A masterpiece. The Wall Street Journal

Superior . . . utterly engrossing. USA Today

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

Wolfe is a peerless observer, a fearless satirist, a genius in full. People

Also by Tom Wolfe:

The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
From Bauhaus to Our House
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
The Painted Word
The Right Stuff
Mauve Gloves & Madmen
Clutter & Vine
In Our Time
The Pumphouse Gang
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

Available wherever Bantam Books are sold