Wolfe, Tom

A Man in Full

ISBN: 0374270325
New York, NY, USA: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "A decade ago, The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era- and established Tom Wolfe as our prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. Now the master is back with a pitch-perfect coast-to-coast portrait of our wild and woolly, no-holds-barred, multifarious country on the cusp of the millennium. The setting is Atlanta, Georgia- a racially mixed, late-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 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 Cannon" 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." (from front flap) The exemplary, Baroque modern-Picaresque novel by Tom Wolfe (1930-2018), the great American author who substantially created the genre of New Journalism, which paralleled the Gonzo Journalism of Hunter S. Thompson, & then became an acclaimed novelist who firmly & flamboyantly kept his finger on the pulse of the American dream/nightmare through the later 20th & earlier 21st centuries. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket (with original cut-out revealing the eye of the main character who is man-in-fully depicted in all his monolithic grotesquery at front cover), "First trade edition, 1998" as stated at copyright page, first printing although not specified as such thereon. From the collection of Barbara (1935-2023) & Irving (1933-2018) Nusbaum, world travelers, connoisseurs, eminent collectors of art & books- the dearly beloved mother & father of this still-grieving writer. An essential later Wolfe collectible in its rarest contemporary trade form, with distinguished provenance. See our other Wolfe classic collectibles including No.s 3605, 7066, 7705 & 7739. Book in very fine condition with only a touch of rubbing, faint scratching to front, back covers & spine; a bit of wear & a few tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of same; very slight rubbing & occasional spotting to edges of text block esp. side edge. Interior very fine, appearing substantially mint. Dust jacket very fine with light rubbing, faint scratching & occasional faint creasing to front, back covers & spine; a hint of wear & some tiny bumps, creases at/from edges & corners of same & flaps; very slight age-toning to flaps esp. at blank margins/edges. Very Fine / Very Fine. [Item #9027]

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