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A Man in Full

By: Tom Wolfe
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
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About this listen

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.

©1998 Tom Wolfe (P)2024 W. F. Howes Ltd City Life Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Thriller & Suspense Urban World Literature Sports Game

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Critic reviews

"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
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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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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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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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