FA: Tom Wolfe A MAN IN FULL

Tom Wolfe A MAN IN FULL Audio Book
Wolfe, Tom. A MAN IN FULL.
BDD Audio 1998. Read by David Ogden Stiers.

"A Man in Full is a big-canvas work, in which a multitude of characters
seems to be ascending or (rapidly) descending the greasy pole of social
life: "In an era like this one," a character reminds us, "the twentieth
century's fin de siècle, position was everything, and it was the hardest
thing to get." Wolfe has changed terrain on us, to be sure. Instead of New
York, the focus here is Atlanta, Georgia, where the struggle for turf and
power is at least slightly patinated with Deep South gentility. The plot
revolves around Charlie Croker, an egomaniacal good ol' boy with a crumbling
real-estate empire on his hands. But Wolfe is no less attentive to a pair of
supporting players: a downwardly mobile family man, Conrad Hensley, and
Roger White II, an African American attorney at a white-shoe firm. What
ultimately causes these subplots to converge--and threatens to ignite a
racial firestorm in Atlanta--is the alleged rape of a society deb by Georgia
Tech football star Fareek "The Cannon" Fanon.

Of course, a detailed plot summary would be about as long as your average
minimalist novel. Suffice it to say that A Man in Full is packed with the
sort of splendid set pieces we've come to expect from Wolfe. A quail hunt on
Charlie's 29,000-acre plantation, a stuffed-shirt evening at the symphony, a
politically loaded press conference--the author assembles these scenes with
contagious delight. The book is also very, very funny. The law firms, like
upper-crust powerhouse Fogg Nackers Rendering & Lean, are straight out of
Dickens, and Wolfe brings even his minor characters, like professional hick
Opey McCorkle, to vivid life." (From the Amazon.com review.)

Six cassettes, 500 minutes listening time. Abridged. Almost new. Listened to
once. The box is lightly edgeworn.
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