A man in full : a novel / Tom Wolfe.

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 ed.
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.