A Man in Full, Tom Wolfe
A Man in Full, Tom Wolfe
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A Man in Full

Author: Tom Wolfe

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Unabridged: 35 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/17/2018


Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • “A masterpiece” (The Wall Street Journal) of a novel by the era-defining author of The Bonfire of the Vanities—now a Netflix original limited series from David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) starring Jeff Daniels, Lucy Liu, and Diane Lane

“Wolfe is a peerless observer, a fearless satirist, a genius in full.”—People

The setting is Atlanta, Georgia—a racially mixed, late-twentieth-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta conglomerate king whose outsize ego has at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 29,000-acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife, and a half-empty office complex with a staggering load of debt.

Meanwhile, Conrad Hensley, idealistic young father of two, is laid off from his job at the Croker Global Foods warehouse near Oakland, California, and finds himself spiraling into the lower depths of the American legal system.

And back in Atlanta, when star Georgia Tech running back Fareek “the Canon” Fanon, a homegrown product of the city’s slums, is accused of date-raping the daughter of a pillar of the white establishment, upscale black lawyer Roger White II is asked to represent Fanon and help keep the city’s delicate racial balance from blowing sky-high.

Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real estate syndicates—Wolfe shows us contemporary turn-of-the-century America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him one of our most admired talked-about novelists.

About The Author

Tom Wolfe’s numerous books include The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, From Bauhaus to Our House, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. He died in 2018.Michael Prichard has played several thousand characters during his career. While he has been seen performing over a hundred of them in theater and film, SmartMoney magazine named him one of the Top Ten Golden Voices.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on December 26, 2022

More Wolfe genius as he turns his eye on the Afro American and 'Southern WASP' dominated Atlanta with fantastic characters such as black, Roger 'Too-White'; quasi crooked broker Peepgas; ne'er do well for trying Conrad; Southern wheeler dealer against the ropes Charlie Croker, a smart and devious bl......more

Goodreads review by Steve on February 03, 2011

Dear Tom Wolfe, I am writing to you now about your insistence on describing what every character is wearing in every scene of your 741-page epic, A Man in Full. I am convinced that, had you chosen to avoid doing such a thing as describe each cut of cloth, each brand name, each sartorial style, and it......more

Goodreads review by Mark on May 07, 2024

A Man in Full, by Tom Wolfe is my first foray into the work of this author, I am so glad a GR friend recommended this book to me, otherwise Mr Wolfe would have passed me by. It’s BIG. At around 750 pages, and for me, being a slow reader, this is a book I would usually baulk at – however, if the book......more

Goodreads review by Sean on December 04, 2013

This book is Tom Wolfe's Masterpiece. I have read The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test and The Bonfire of the Vanities and this is by far his greatest accomplishment. I was surprised to read the reviews saying the book is contrived and predictable. I thought is was an engaging commentary on American cult......more

Goodreads review by Paul on April 01, 2018

This big big novel is all about big big things. Our 60 year old property developer cracker millionaire-teetering-on-the-very-edge-of-bankruptcy Charlie Croker is big all over; his trophy wife Serena has big hair and whilst many of her other attributes are tiny (waist, wrists) a couple of them are al......more


Quotes

"A masterpiece."
--The Wall Street Journal

"Superior...utterly engrossing."
--USA Today

"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

"Wolfe is a peerless observer, a fearless satirist, a genius in full."
--People