ISIS Publishing Ltd

Synopsis

The most widely awaited, hilarious and telling novel America has seen in ages – Tom Wolfe’s outstanding achievement to date. A decade ago, The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era – and established Tom Wolfe as the prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. Now the master is back with a no-holds-barred portrait of a country on the cusp of the millennium. Set in Atlanta, Georgia, A Man in Full follows the lives of two very different men: Charles Croker, a middle-aged conglomerate king whose outsize ego clashes with reality and a staggering load of debt, while idealistic Conrad Hensley is laid off his job at the Croker Global Foods warehouse and finds himself spiralling into the lower depths of the American legal system. Networks of illegal Asian immigrants criss-crossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real-estate syndicates, the cast-off first wives of the corporate élite – Wolfe shows us contemporary America with all the wit, verve and insight that have made him its most admired novelist.