A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe

A Man in Full

By Tom Wolfe

  • Release Date: 2010-04-01
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 162 Ratings)

Book Synopsis

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. With A Man in Full, the time the setting is Atlanta, Georgia--a racially mixed late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth, avid speculators, and worldly-wise politicians.

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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Latest Impressions

  • Excellent

    5
    By Emmet Aloysius
    Wolff at his best in an absorbing story with good characters and an intriguing story line. I enjoyed much more than Charlotte Simmons. Looking to read more Wolf soon...EAF
  • A man in full

    5
    By Curtis Palmer
    Best book I've ever read the author paints such vivid characters and the storyline is so smooth and rich you can tell that a good portion of this mans life was spent creating this masterpiece a real work of art cover to cover
  • Amazing!

    5
    By Kleveland11
    Wolfe nails Atlanta! The tension, ambition, race... All of it. Nails it.