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A man in full : a novel / Tom Wolfe.

Wolfe, Tom. (Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0374270325
  • ISBN: 0553381334
  • ISBN: 0553580930
  • ISBN: 9780374270322
  • ISBN: 9780553381337
  • ISBN: 9780553580938
  • Physical Description: 742 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: 1st trade edition
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: Cap'm Charlie -- Chocolate Meca -- Saddlebags -- Turpmtine -- Beige Half Brothers -- Suicidal Freezer Unit -- In the Lair of the Lust -- Hello Out There, 7-Eleven Land -- Lay of the Land -- Superfluous Woman -- Red Dog -- This Is--Not Right! -- Breeding Barn -- Arrest -- God's Cosmic Joke -- Rubber Room -- Gotcha Back -- Epictetus Comes to Da House -- Aha! Phenomenon -- Trial -- Mai's Army -- Real Buckhead -- Chambodia -- Deal -- Gridiron Heroes -- Starring Darwell Scruggs -- Holding Hands -- Screen -- Spark of Zeus -- Epictetus in Buckhead -- Bull and the Lion -- Roger Black -- Manager -- Epilogue: A Man of the World.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by David Ogden Stiers.
Subject: Acquaintance rape > Fiction.
African American lawyers > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Conglomerate corporations > Fiction.
Political corruption > Fiction.
Politics, Practical > Fiction.
Atlanta (Ga.) > Fiction.
Genre: Fiction.
Legal fiction (Literature)

Available copies

  • 50 of 51 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 0 of 0 copies available at McDowell County Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 51 total copies.
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Alleghany Public Library F WOLFE (Text) 40599000158157 Adult Fiction Available -
Angier Public Library F Wol (Text) 33632002110634 Adult Fiction Available -
Avery County Morrison Public Library FIC WOL (Text) 31111002464160 Adult Fiction Available -
BHM Headquarters Library FIC (Text) 38344100833753 Adult Fiction Available -
Bath Community Library FIC (Text) 38344100825379 Adult Fiction Available -
Beaufort Main F WOL (Text) 2000308228 Adult Fiction Available -
Broadway Branch F/WOLFE (Text) 33262001830329 Adult Fiction Available -
Charles H. Stone Memorial Library F WOLFE (Text) 40599000158165 Adult Fiction Available -
Clemmons Branch FIC Wolfe, Tom (Text) 0112509354315 Adult Fiction Available -
Cleveland County Main Library F WOLFE (Text) 22281500047144 Adult Fiction Available -