A Man in Full: A Novel

Tom Wolfe's THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES defined an era and established Wolfe as our prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. In his #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist, A MAN IN FULL, the setting shifts to Atlanta, Georgia—a racially mixed late-century boomtown teeming with fresh wealth, avid speculators, and worldly-wise politicians."

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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.


Praise for A Man in Full:


“A masterpiece.” —The Wall Street Journal


“The novel contains passages as powerful and as beautiful as anything written—not merely by contemporary American novelists but by any American novelist. . . . The book is as funny as anything Wolfe has ever written; at the same time it is also deeply, strangely affecting.” —The New York Times Book Review