A Man in Full a book by Tom Wolfe (original) (raw)

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - "A masterpiece" (The Wall Street Journal) of a novel by the era-defining author of _The Bonfire of the Vanities_--now a Netflix original limited series from David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) starring Jeff Daniels, Lucy Liu, and Diane Lane

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

The setting is Atlanta, Georgia--a racially mixed, late-twentieth-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, California, 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 Canon" 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.

Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real estate syndicates--Wolfe shows us contemporary turn-of-the-century America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him one of our most admired talked-about novelists.

Reviews

#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

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