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A man in full : a novel / Tom Wolfe.

Wolfe, Tom. (Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0374270325
  • ISBN: 0553381334
  • ISBN: 0553580930
  • ISBN: 9780374270322
  • ISBN: 9780553381337
  • ISBN: 9780553580938
  • Physical Description: 742 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: 1st trade edition
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: Cap'm Charlie -- Chocolate Meca -- Saddlebags -- Turpmtine -- Beige Half Brothers -- Suicidal Freezer Unit -- In the Lair of the Lust -- Hello Out There, 7-Eleven Land -- Lay of the Land -- Superfluous Woman -- Red Dog -- This Is--Not Right! -- Breeding Barn -- Arrest -- God's Cosmic Joke -- Rubber Room -- Gotcha Back -- Epictetus Comes to Da House -- Aha! Phenomenon -- Trial -- Mai's Army -- Real Buckhead -- Chambodia -- Deal -- Gridiron Heroes -- Starring Darwell Scruggs -- Holding Hands -- Screen -- Spark of Zeus -- Epictetus in Buckhead -- Bull and the Lion -- Roger Black -- Manager -- Epilogue: A Man of the World.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by David Ogden Stiers.

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Acquaintance rape > Fiction.
African American lawyers > Fiction.
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Political corruption > Fiction.
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Atlanta (Ga.) > Fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.
Legal fiction (Literature)

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