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A Man In Full

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099554776

  • Length: 752  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 42mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 540g

  • RRP: £10.99

A Man In Full

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

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099554776

  • Length: 752  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 42mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 540g

  • RRP: £10.99

Reviews

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Andrew Ferguson, Wall Street Journal

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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.

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