A Man in Full#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • “A masterpiece” (The Wall Street Journal) of a novel by the era-defining author of The Bonfire of the Vanities—soon to be a Netflix original limited series from David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) starring Jeff Daniels, Lucy Liu, and Diane Lane “Wolfe is a peerless observer, a fearless satirist, a genius in full.”—People The setting is Atlanta, Georgia—a racially mixed, late-twentieth-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta conglomerate king whose outsize ego has at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 29,000-acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife, and a half-empty office complex with a staggering load of debt. Meanwhile, Conrad Hensley, idealistic young father of two, is laid off from his job at the Croker Global Foods warehouse near Oakland, California, and finds himself spiraling into the lower depths of the American legal system. And back in Atlanta, when star Georgia Tech running back Fareek “the Canon” Fanon, a homegrown product of the city’s slums, is accused of date-raping the daughter of a pillar of the white establishment, upscale black lawyer Roger White II is asked to represent Fanon and help keep the city’s delicate racial balance from blowing sky-high. Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real estate syndicates—Wolfe shows us contemporary turn-of-the-century America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him one of our most admired talked-about novelists. |
Contents
Capm Charlie | 3 |
Chocolate Mecca | 15 |
The Saddlebags | 31 |
Turpmtine | 54 |
Beige Half Brothers | 83 |
The Suicidal Freezer Unit | 99 |
In the Lair of the Lust | 123 |
Hello Out There 7Eleven Land | 145 |
The Aha Phenomenon | 389 |
The Trial | 409 |
Mais Army | 432 |
The Real Buckhead | 457 |
Chambodia | 477 |
The Deal | 505 |
Gridiron Heroes | 532 |
Starring Darwell Scruggs | 550 |
The Lay of the Land | 165 |
The Superfluous Woman | 191 |
The Red Dog | 216 |
This Is Not Right | 230 |
The Breeding Barn | 255 |
The Arrest | 288 |
Gods Cosmic Joke | 301 |
The Rubber Room | 317 |
Gotcha Back | 343 |
Epictetus Comes to Da House | 367 |
Holding Hands | 562 |
The Screen | 575 |
The Spark of Zeus | 592 |
Epictetus in Buckhead | 607 |
The Bull and the Lion | 622 |
Roger Black | 642 |
The Manager | 662 |
A Man of the World | 678 |
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