A Man In Full
  • Published: 21 June 2018
  • ISBN: 9781446442067
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 752

A Man In Full

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1 Nov 2011
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21 Jun 2018
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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

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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 verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most admired novelist.

‘Enthralling enough even to satisfy The Bonfire of the Vanities devotees...humane and redemptive’ – Sunday Times
  • Published: 21 June 2018
  • ISBN: 9781446442067
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 752
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About the author

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.

portrait photo of Tom Wolfe

Also by Tom Wolfe

The Kingdom of Speech
Back to Blood
Hooking Up
The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Right Stuff
I Am Charlotte Simmons
The Purple Decades
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Praise for A Man In Full

A brilliant book - vast, satirical, moving, often profound

Justin Cartwright, Independent on Sunday

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

A masterpiece...the difference between seeing the world in slices and seeing it in full

Andrew Ferguson, Wall Street Journal

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 will be a good friend to you

Martin Amis, Guardian

Novels of this size... always have flaws and the occasional lull, but Wolfe's fizzy prose and amusingly mean-spirited social observations make up for any other deficiencies. Highly entertaining

Irish Times

Powerful... Beautiful... As funny as anything Wolfe has ever written; at the same time it is also deeply, strangely affecting

New York Times Book Review

Powerful...beautiful...as funny as anything Wolfe has ever written; at the same time it is also deeply, strangely affecting

Malcolm Jones Jr., Newsweek

There are far too many delicious examples of Wolfe's razor sharp wit and stylish writing. So I'll simply say that if you enjoy a slice of American fiction, then this book will not disappoint. Otherwise, I'll eat my hat. A big, bold, brash, brilliant book, beautifully-written. Highly recommended

TheBookBag.co.uk

What razor-sharp brilliance! What sublime satirical wit!... The lives of Wolfe's seemingly unconnected cast of characters, bouncing off the pages as vividly as any of Dickens', become gradually interwoven. Wolfe takes ironic swipes at greed, class, racism from both sides of the fence and financial and political corruption... A what a wonderful way Wolfe has with dialogue and with the barbaric euphemisms of street slang and rap. Sheer genius

Val Hennessy, Daily Mail

Wolfe is a peerless observer, a fearless satirist, a genius in full

Kyle Smith, People

You only have to read the first sentence to be totally gripped

Miriam Gross, Sunday Telegraph