by Tom Wolfe · Robert Laffont · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221086100
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«Un homme, un vrai» is the novel by Tom Wolfe, published by Robert Laffont in paperback (816 pages, in French).
Social satire set in Atlanta that interweaves the lives of Charlie Croker, a real estate magnate hounded by debt, and Conrad Hensley, a young idealist who ends up in prison. Through their fates, Wolfe portrays power, money, racism, and the contradictions of contemporary America, in a work that has been compared to the great Victorian novels.
Novel originally published in 1998 under the title «A Man in Full»; this French edition, translated by Benjamin Legrand, was a finalist for the National Book Award in the fiction category.
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.
