Man in Full: A Novel, Tom Wolfe,1998,Edición en Inglés

• Editorial ‏ : ‎ Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Fecha de publicación ‏ : ‎ 12 noviembre 1998
• Edición ‏ : ‎ First Trade Edition
• Idioma ‏ : ‎ Inglés
• Longitud de impresión ‏ : ‎ 742 páginas
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0374270325
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0374270322
• Peso del producto ‏ : ‎ 1,18 kg
• Dimensiones ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 4.6 x 22.86 cm

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. With A Man in Full, the time the setting is Atlanta, Georgia--a racially mixed late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth, avid speculators, and worldly-wise politicians.

Big men. Big money. Big games. Big libidos. Big trouble.

The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real-estate entrepreneur turned conglomerate king, whose expansionist ambitions and outsize ego have at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 28,000-acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife--and a half-empty office tower with a staggering load of debt. When star running back Fareek Fanon--the pride of one of Atlanta's grimmest slums--is accused of raping an Atlanta blueblood's daughter, the city's delicate racial balance is shattered overnight. Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real-estate syndicates, cast-off first wives of the corporate elite, the racially charged politics of college sports--Wolfe shows us the disparate worlds of contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most phenomenal, most admired contemporary novelist.

A Man in Full is a 1998 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

A Man in Full" es una novela del escritor estadounidense Tom Wolfe, publicada en 1998. Es una de sus obras más conocidas y una crítica mordaz a la sociedad estadounidense contemporánea.

Detalles de la obra:

- Título completo: A Man in Full

- Autor: Tom Wolfe

- Género: Novela, sátira social

- Idioma original: Inglés

- Publicación: 1998

Temas principales:

- La lucha por el poder y el estatus

- La decadencia de la clase alta en EE. UU.

- El racismo y las tensiones sociales

- El sistema de justicia penal

- El estoicismo (filosofía que cobra un papel importante en