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A Man in Full

By: Tom Wolfe
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
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Don't miss the star-studded mini series adaptation of A Man in Full-coming soon to Netflix.

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.

Praise for A Man in Full:

"A masterpiece." --The Wall Street Journal

"The novel contains passages as powerful and as beautiful as anything written--not merely by contemporary American novelists but by any American novelist. . . . The book is as funny as anything Wolfe has ever written; at the same time it is also deeply, strangely affecting." --The New York Times Book Review©1998 Tom Wolfe (P)2018 Penguin Random House Audio Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Political Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Sports Game
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Definitely worth to listen, but the author could have cut at least 50% without losing much, in fact, strengthening the book.

Nice, but too much

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Experiencing the book 25 yea after it was set is interesting. Much is dated but even more still holds true. I love the way the characters are developed and the intricate details and descriptions

The depth and evolution of all the characters

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Tom Wolfe creates characters that you fully believe in, and his writing transports you. I was in prison at one point (more fun than it sounds.) Funny and insightful and interesting.

Superb - what an exceptional storyteller

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I didn't get it. There was quite a lot of repetition, especially of the internal character narratives.

Not for me

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