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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0553381334
ISBN-13: 9780553381337
Oct 2001
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
690 pages
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Language: English |
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Synopsis
Tom Wolfe's novel stars a college football star turned millionaire businessman who, in late middle age, finds himself with a troublesome young wife and a mountain of debt. The cast includes Conrad Hensley, who gets in trouble with the law after losing his job; a black ex-athlete accused of raping a white girl; and the lawyer who represents him. This explosive, multihued novel about the tension in late 20th-century Atlanta involves illegal immigrants, prison life, shady real estate deals, trophy wives and the women they have replaced. Wolfe's first novel in 11 years was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Award. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
| Size | | Length: | 690 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 25.6 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Charlie Croker, astride his favorite Tennessee walking horse, pulled his shoulders back to make sure he was erect in the saddle and took a deep breath....Ahhhh, that was the ticket....He loved the way his mighty chest rose and fell beneath his khaki shirt and imagined that everyone in the hunting party noticed how powerfully built he was."
Industry Reviews
"Tom Wolfe may be the hardest-working showoff the literary world has ever owned...[H]e is certainly the most gifted best-seller writer since Margaret Mitchell."
New York Review of Books - Norman Mailer (12/17/1998)
"Probably nothing could have lived up to the hype that preceeded this endless--and endlessly self-satisfied--effort to provide a panoramic view of America at the end of the century. Wolfe is a sly boots, cloaking his outright celebration of the pecker under a veneer of caring and spiritual restlessness. The result is an ugly, misogynistic, homophobic wet dream, if there can be such a thing."
Salon - Peter Kurth (12/24/1998)
"Nobody knows better than Wolfe the brand names and price tags of all our gaudy toys....And what Wolfe's best at is our fear of losing it all....But that's all Wolfe knows anything about or excels at....[He] is otherwise a right-wing Andy Warhol, Ayn Rand as Mister Softee..."
Nation - John Leonard (01/11/1999)
"[A] simple story so loaded with sets and costumes it can hardly move....[I]ts narrative and characterisation are so wanting that it is hardly a novel at all."
Literary Review - Rhoda Koenig (01/19/1999)
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