A Man in Full
Tom Wolfe, David Ogden Stiers, Juan Gabriel López Guix · 1998
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About the book
A satire on America featuring a capitalist trying to avoid ruin. The hero is Charlie Croker of Atlanta whose plantation and skyscraper face repossession by banks for non-repayment of a loan. One way out might be to request leniency in return for hushing up a rape.
First sentence: FOR A WHILE THE FREAKNIC TRAFFIC INCHED UP PIEDMONT...inched up Piedmont...inched up Piedmont...inched up as far as Tenth Street...and then inched up the slope beyond Tenth Street...inched up as far as Fifteenth Street... whereupon it came to a complete, utter, hopeless, bogged-down glue-trap halt, both ways, northbound, southbound, going and coming, across all four lanes.
Book details
- Year
- 1998
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Editions
- 31
- Reader rating
- 4.0 / 5 (7)
- Pages
- 787
- ISBN
- 9780553580938
Data source: Wikidata
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