A Man In Full

A dissection of greed-obsessed America a decade after The Bonfire of the Vanities and on the cusp of the millennium, from the master chronicler of American culture Tom WolfeCharlie Croker, once a fabled college football star, is now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real estate entrepreneur-turned conglomerate king. His 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 downtown tower with a staggering load of debt. Wolfe shows us contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most admired novelist.`Enthralling enough even to satisfy The Bonfire of the Vanities devotees…humane and redemptive’ – Sunday Times

Reviews of A Man In Full

"A hugely enjoyable and impressive read, 800-odd pages of splendid plot, terrific characterization and astounding detail… Dickens would have approved" — Harry Ritchie * The Times Books of the Year * "Enthralling enough even to satisfy The Bonfire of the Vanities devotees…humane and redemptive" — Ruth Rendell * Sunday Times Books of the Year * "Fiercely and instantly addictive…this book will be a good friend to you" — Martin Amis * Guardian * "Powerful… Beautiful… As funny as anything Wolfe has ever written; at the same time it is also deeply, strangely affecting" * New York Times Book Review * "A masterpiece…the difference between seeing the world in slices and seeing it in full" — Andrew Ferguson * Wall Street Journal *