{"product_id":"9781429960694","title":"A Man in Full","description":"\u003cp\u003eBig men. Big money. Big games. Big libidos. Big trouble.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA decade ago, \u003ci\u003eThe Bonfire of the Vanities\u003c\/i\u003e defined an era--and established Tom Wolfe as our prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. This time the setting is Atlanta, Georgia--a racially mixed late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth, avid speculators, and worldly-wise politicians. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Man in Full \u003c\/i\u003eis a 1998 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154141102320,"sku":"9781429960694","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429960694_p0.jpg?v=1763748722","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429960694","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}