by Tom Wolfe · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330354790
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«A Man in Full» is Tom Wolfe's satirical novel, published by Picador in paperback (752 pages, in English).
«A Man in Full» follows Charlie Croker, an Atlanta property magnate whose empire crumbles while other plots involving lawyers, politicians and businessmen intersect with his. Wolfe satirises power, class, race and the pursuit of success in the United States, with part of the action set in California.
It is Tom Wolfe's second novel and was a finalist for the National Book Award. This Picador edition dates from 1999.
Literary fiction for readers seeking a multi-voiced novel with social critique and a portrait of the contradictions of the United States.
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. Much of Wolfe's work is satirical and centers on the counterculture of the 1960s and issues related to class, social status, and the lifestyles of the economic and intellectual elites of New York City.
