# A Man in Full - Hardcover

by **Tom Wolfe** (Author)

**_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. With _A Man in Full_, the time the setting is Atlanta, Georgia--a racially mixed late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth, avid speculators, and worldly-wise politicians.**  
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.

_A Man in Full_ is a 1998 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

### Author Biography

**Tom Wolfe** (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of contemporary classics like _The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test_, _The Right Stuff_, and _Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers_, as well as the novels _The Bonfire of the Vanities_, _A Man in Full_, and _I Am Charlotte Simmons_. As a reporter, he wrote articles for _The Washington Post_, the _New York Herald Tribune_, _Esquire_, and _New York_ magazine, and is credited with coining the term, "The Me Decade." Among his many honors, Tom was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lived in New York City.

**Number of Pages:** 742

**Dimensions:** 2.1 x 9.56 x 6.68 IN

**Publication Date:** November 12, 1998

**Award:** National Book Awards (1998)

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