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Wolfe, Tom A Man in Full
Bantam October 5, 1999 0-553-58093-0 / 9780553580938 Paperback Very Good
Ever since he published his classic 1972 essay "Why They Aren't Writing the Great American Novel Anymore," Tom Wolfe has made his fictional preference s loud and clear. For New Journalism's poster boy, minimalism is a wash, no t to mention a failure of nerve. The real mission of the American writer is to produce fat novels of social observation--the sort of thing Balzac woul d be dishing up if he had made it into the Viagra era. Wolfe's manifesto wo uld have had a hubristic ring if he hadn't actually delivered the goods in 1987 with The Bonfire of the Vanities. Now, more than a decade later, he's back with a second novel. Has the Man in White lived up to his own mission? On many counts, the answer would have to be yes. Like its predecessor, 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 At
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Wolfe, Tom A Man in Full
New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux November 12, 19 0-374-27032-5 / 9780374270322 1st Edition Hardcover NF/NF
A tight clean first edition/printing, protected in a new brodart wrapper, n ot price clipped/ex library or a book of the month edition. Ever since he published his classic 1972 essay "Why They Aren't Writing the Great American Novel Anymore," Tom Wolfe has made his fictional preference s loud and clear. For New Journalism's poster boy, minimalism is a wash, no t to mention a failure of nerve. The real mission of the American writer is to produce fat novels of social observation--the sort of thing Balzac woul d be dishing up if he had made it into the Viagra era. Wolfe's manifesto wo uld have had a hubristic ring if he hadn't actually delivered the goods in 1987 with The Bonfire of the Vanities. Now, more than a decade later, he's back with a second novel. Has the Man in White lived up to his own mission? On many counts, the answer would have to be yes. Like its predecessor, 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 Ame
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Wolfe, Tom Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
New York Bantam October 5, 1999 0-553-38062-1 / 9780553380620 Paperback Very Good
"Radical Chic and Mau-mauing the Flak Catchers" is comprised of two short e ssays written by Tom Wolfe and first published in book form in 1970. While much has changed over the last three decades in America regarding the topic of race, the essays of this book are just as applicable now as they were w hen Wolfe wrote them.
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