Man in Full
by Tom Wolfe
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Loved
- ISBN 10
- 0374270325
- ISBN 13
- 9780374270322
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About This Item
The setting is Atlanta, Georgia - a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta conglomerate king whose outsize ego has at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 29,000-acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife - and a half-empty office complex with a staggering load of debt. Meanwhile, Conrad Hensley, idealistic young father of two, is laid off from his job at the Croker Global Foods warehouse near Oakland and finds himself spiraling into the lower depths of the American legal system. And back in Atlanta, when star Georgia Tech running back Fareek "the Cannon" Fanon, a homegrown product of the city's slums, is accused of date-raping the daughter of a pillar of the white establishment, upscale black lawyer Roger White II is asked to represent Fanon and help keep the city's delicate racial balance from blowing sky-high.
Synopsis
A Man in Full is a novel by Tom Wolfe, published in 1998 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. This 742-page satire portrays a high-flying real-estate mogul amid the intricate social dynamics of Atlanta, the vibrant capital of the New South, who is saved from a moral dilemma by the Stoicism of Epictetus. Part of the novel also takes place in Oakland, California. Most of the mainstream American newspapers and news magazines gave the book positive reviews.
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- Bookseller
- P.G's Storybook Emporium (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0374270325UH
- Title
- Man in Full
- Author
- Tom Wolfe
- Book Condition
- Used - Loved
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374270325
- ISBN 13
- 9780374270322
- Publisher
- Farrar Status, Girroux, New York
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1998
- Pages
- 742
- Keywords
- Politcal
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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