A Man in Full
by Tom Wolfe
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A satire on America featuring a capitalist trying to avoid ruin. The hero is Charlie Croker of Atlanta whose plantation and skyscraper face repossession by banks for non-repayment of a loan. One way out might be to request leniency in return for hushing up a rape.
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Acquaintance rape, African American lawyers, African Americans, Africna American lawyers, Afro-American lawyers, Conglomerate corporations, Fiction, Political corruption, Practical Politics, Football stories, Rape, Large type books, Fiction, general, Atlanta (ga.), fiction, New York Times reviewed, Social life and customs, Politics and government, Businessmen, City and town life, History, Fiction, political, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Georgia, fiction, American fiction, Conglomérats (Économie politique), Romans, nouvelles, Viol par une connaissance, Avocats noirs américains, Corruption (Politique), Noirs américains, Roman américainPlaces
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A Man in Full
October 30, 2001, Dial Press Trade Paperback
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A man in full: a novel
1999, Bantam Books, Bantam
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A man in full: a novel
1998, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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A man in full: a novel
1998, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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"FOR A WHILE THE FREAKNIC TRAFFIC INCHED UP PIEDMONT..."
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"FOR A WHILE THE FREAKNIC TRAFFIC INCHED UP PIEDMONT...inched up Piedmont...inched up Piedmont...inched up as far as Tenth Street...and then inched up the slope beyond Tenth Street...inched up as far as Fifteenth Street... whereupon it came to a complete, utter, hopeless, bogged-down glue-trap halt, both ways, northbound, southbound, going and coming, across all four lanes."
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| January 17, 2021 | Edited by Lisa | Merge works |
| January 16, 2021 | Edited by Lisa | Added new cover |
| January 16, 2021 | Edited by Lisa | Update covers |
| January 16, 2021 | Edited by lisaBot | moving edition(s) to primary work |
| April 30, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from amazon.com record. |