A Man in Full
by Tom Wolfe | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0553381334 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0553381334 Global Overview for this book
Registered by MissGrace of Anderson, South Carolina USA on 5/5/2006
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This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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The description from Tom Wolfe's website:
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.
Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real estate syndicates, the cast-off first wives of the corporate elite—Wolfe shows us contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most admired novelist. Charlie Croker's deliverance from his tribulations provides an unforgettable denouement to the most widely awaited, hilarious, and telling novel America has seen in ages—Tom Wolfe's outstanding achievement to date.
I bought this book several months ago when I signed up for the HomeTown Authors BookBox. I had always wanted to read this book and thought it would make a great addition to the bookbox since it takes place in Atlanta, Georgia. But, alas, time got a way from me and I never got a chance to read it. I am releasing it in the bookbox in the hope that it finds a good home.
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.
Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real estate syndicates, the cast-off first wives of the corporate elite—Wolfe shows us contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most admired novelist. Charlie Croker's deliverance from his tribulations provides an unforgettable denouement to the most widely awaited, hilarious, and telling novel America has seen in ages—Tom Wolfe's outstanding achievement to date.
I bought this book several months ago when I signed up for the HomeTown Authors BookBox. I had always wanted to read this book and thought it would make a great addition to the bookbox since it takes place in Atlanta, Georgia. But, alas, time got a way from me and I never got a chance to read it. I am releasing it in the bookbox in the hope that it finds a good home.
Mailed off today in the book box
I'm taking this book from the Hometown Authors Bookbox because it sounds intriguing. It'll be a while before it gets read because I have an entire closet full of TBRs!
Journal Entry 4 by Lobodyke at DG garage sale in Bardstown, Kentucky USA on Saturday, October 15, 2016
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Finally admitting that I can't read all the books I have on my shelves ...
Finally admitting that I can't read all the books I have on my shelves ...
