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 A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe
 A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe ... outsize ego. He also has a young and demanding second wife and a half-empty office tower running up debts. When a football star from Atlanta's grimmest slum is accused of rape, the city's racial balance is shattered.Newest Review: ... and/or literally destroyed. THE STORY: Charlie Croker, Atlanta real estate mogul and former America ... more ...
n football (!) superstar now in his sixties - with an ego surpassed only by his debts - has everything that could fathomably amount to a status symbol: an oversized quail plantation in the South, a twenty-something gorgeous second wife, an ex-wife living off divorce settlements, kids, a private jet with an inestimable painting on board, and a (half-empty, alas) tower building named after himself. But his empire is collapsing under the weight of the bank's un...more |
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A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe: Give yourself a Massive testosterone shot (1265 words)
by - written on 31/03/01 (Very useful, 133 readings)
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A book hyped up as "the epic must-read for the nineties", including extensive coverage in TIME magazine, is just screaming to be snubbed. In fact, it was published in 1998, and yours truly has put off buying it until last month. But alas, any book-snob aspirations I may have are destined to remain such, for my morbid curiosity and fetish for anything black on paper (preferably, though not necessarily, bound in some form - I've been known to read loose sheets when nothing else was immediately available to satiate my craving) drove me slowly but surely towards the "W" shelves... You must know (or perhaps you couldn't care less, ... Read the complete review
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