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A Man in Full
Tom Wolfe
- Book Description
Big men. Big money. Big games. Big libidos. Big trouble. A
decade ago, The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an
era--and established Tom Wolfe as our prime fictional
chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive.
This time the setting is Atlanta, Georgia--a racially
mixed late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth, avid
speculators, and worldly-wise politicians. 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.
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