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Man In Full
Tom Wolfe
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Description for Man In Full
Paperback. Charlie Croker was once a fabled college football star and is now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real estate entrepeneur-turned conglomerate king, whose expansionist ambitions and outsize ego have at last hit up against reality. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 39. Weight in Grams: 560.
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A dissection of greed-obsessed America a decade after The Bonfire of the Vanities and on the cusp of the millennium, from the master chronicler of American culture Tom Wolfe
Charlie Croker, once a fabled college football star, is now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real estate entrepreneur-turned conglomerate king. His 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 downtown tower with a staggering load of debt. Wolfe shows us contemporary America with all the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
752
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099554776
SKU
V9780099554776
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, I Am Charlotte Simmons and Back to Blood. He received the National Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
Reviews for Man In Full
A hugely enjoyable and impressive read, 800-odd pages of splendid plot, terrific characterization and astounding detail... Dickens would have approved
Harry Ritchie
The Times Books of the Year
Enthralling enough even to satisfy The Bonfire of the Vanities devotees...humane and redemptive
Ruth Rendell
Sunday Times Books of the Year
Fiercely and instantly addictive...this book ... Read more
Harry Ritchie
The Times Books of the Year
Enthralling enough even to satisfy The Bonfire of the Vanities devotees...humane and redemptive
Ruth Rendell
Sunday Times Books of the Year
Fiercely and instantly addictive...this book ... Read more