02830cam a2200457 i 4500 1993038025 TxAuBib 20250304120000.0 980617s1998||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 98029842 9780374270322 alk. paper 0374270325 alk. paper (OCoLC)39339625 TxAuBib rda Wolfe, Tom. A man in full [Print] : a novel / Tom Wolfe. 1st trade ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. 742 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Atlanta, Georgia (United States.) 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. 20250304. National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1998.) Conglomerate corporations Fiction. African American lawyers Fiction. Political corruption Fiction. Acquaintance rape Fiction. Politics, Practical Fiction. African Americans Fiction. Atlanta (Ga) Fiction. FICTION / Political. FICTION / Legal. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / World Literature / American - 20th Century. FICTION / Media Tie-In. Legal fiction (Literature.) TXTLL