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The setting is Atlanta, Georgia - a racially mixed, late-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 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 America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most admired novelist. Charlie Croker’s deliverance from his tribulations provides an unforgettable denouement to the most widely awaited, hilarious, and telling novel America has seen in ages - Tom Wolfe’s most outstanding achievement to date.

Reviewer: AvidReader
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Novel in Full (ignore the TV series)
Review: I bought my first copy of this novel the day in came out. I was living and working in NYC and had to visit several book stores as it sold out instantly. I got my copy and it was worth the effort. I consider Bonfire of the Vanities the practice novel for this work which I consider Wolfe's best effort. It is a long novel, and I have read it at least four times, I am getting ready to read it a fifth time as the horrible TV series that just came out washed away my good memories of this work.I see this novel as a twin retelling of the trials of Job, on two very different characters and involving philosophy as opposed to religion. There were many vivid characters, but I feel like the two 'Jobs' were the backbone of the story.Obviously I feel it worth the read, and maybe skip the miniseries, as I feel that it completely missed the point of the novel.

Reviewer: MaryB
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: good story
Review: I thought the story was really entertaining and informative - about prison life, about Atlanta politics. The author is too wordy and gets caught up in his own rhetoric. It seems like he was being paid by the word because he repeated words and sounds over and over. The book could have been at least a third shorter.I like the way the story came full circle and, not wanting to give anything away, that’s all I’ll say about that.

Reviewer: Constantin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Sprawling
Review: A contemporary Gone with the wind! An American classic. Running out of superlatives to describe the writing

Reviewer: Raj Against The Machine
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Another great classic from Tom Wolfe, with expert & engaging narration by David Ogden Stiers
Review: Tom Wolfe is among my favorite authors, having already read "Bonfire of the Vanities" and "The Right Stuff". I had never heard of "A Man in Full" but after reading the excerpt on Amazon, which was the chapter introducing Roger Too-White, I decided to purchase the audio-CD version of this book.I have listened to several audiobooks overt the last few months, and I have found that no matter what the subject or author, what makes or breaks an audiobook is the narration/reading. Most have been good. (Anything narrated by Boyd Gaines should be avoided.)In contrast, "A Man in Full" is expertly narrated by David Ogden Stiers, best-known as Major Winchester on "M*A*S*H". He brought depth and life to every character in the novel, and was able to differentiate each character so as to stand out in the listener's mind.Stiers' diction and intonation were extremely helpful in describing each scene, and the motivations behind each character. One can easily pick up on the nervous fear & frustration in Conrad on his fateful day when he fails his typing test, has his car towed, is jerked around by surrounding characters who seem to go out of their way to keep him from getting enough change for a phone call, then by the staff at the impound lot, after which you finally hear him snap, resulting in his failed attempt to steal back his own car, resulting in his imprisonment.I howled out loud at the sheer improbability of Charlie and Conrad coming together through what seemed like fate (or was it the hand of Zeus?). One could almost sense this about to happen, however, but the manner in which it occurred, and the subsequent outcome of their meeting (as opposed to what most readers, like myself, might have predicted), is (as Wolfe might write), a jolt to the solar plexus.(P.S. - Is there a Tom Wolfe novel without "solar plexus" in it?)

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Over written...
Review: While I found the book, in parts, a real page turner, I have to rate the book a three for the following reasons.1. Poor use of 10 cent words when developing his characters. If you're an MIT grad... you speak, act, and think like one...and typically that's how you'd expect them to be portrayed in the written word..however, if you're poor high school grad like Conrad, I find polysyllabic words popping up as he mulls over his life in his simple, jailhouse mind a bit distracting and disingenuous.2. The book was way too long for its content...mostly due to lengthy, unnecessary musings...often rambling and off plot...meaning that they neither advance the plot, nor meaningfully contribute to portraying the character. I thought that the author lost the balance between characterization and plot. While I enjoy good characterization, I don't want character development so in depth that I find myself wanting to skim parts of the book just to get back to some meaningful plot points.3. Broken plots and subplots. For instance...Peepgass marries Charlie Croaker's wife...why...who cares...you never find out how he overcame the class and money differences between he and Martha Croker. He dated her a couple of times...and boom, they are married. She did serve to offer embarrassing information about Charlie's earlier life that was never really a contribution to the plot.4. While you may not like, or believe that Charlie Croker is the protagonist, I wanted to follow the main plot. The author builds the plot in such a way as to lead the reader into expecting retribution for Charlie against the those at the bank who embarrassed and belittled him in so many ways. The author sets up a means to that end, offers justification through Charlie's wife. Not to be...in the end, Charlie finds religion, albeit off of the beaten path, and walks away...just quits...leaving his wife, kids, employees, his business, his plantation, all that he is...all because he happened to read a book.5. The book leaves so many loose ends that it has to be tied up in an Epilogue. You get the feeling that the author over wrote the story...either out of boredom or inability to control his characters...to the point of distraction...and then just couldn't figure out how to rewrite the characters in a more meaningful way. Not all characters, and not throughout the book, but in enough places that the book bogs down.6. The book could have easily been 100 pages shorter, better written, shorter musings by the characters, and for sure could have had a better ending.Don't get me wrong...when the book moved...it moved. Some parts of the book were very powerfully written...well characterized and interesting...hard to put down. It's the wasted space...the pages that follow the subplots to distraction that really take an otherwise wonderful read and turn it into an exercise in completion. I had been waiting to read this book for 5 years, ever since I bought it at a library sale for $3, read a few pages and then lost track of it. Recently, I received a Kindle for my birthday and bought the book from Amazon. You know, we all read books in different ways...so, if your one of those people who don't read word for word...skipping here and there over the boring parts...you will most likely love this book a lot more than I did.

Reviewer: bryan tickle
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great read
Review: Awesome book.

Reviewer: Gabrielle
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: A captivating Tom Wolfe story, written with his distinctive, heartfelt style. I am a true admirer of Tom Wolfe's writing style. He develops his characters in such an authentic way that we can identify to anyone, be it, in the case of A Man in Full, an old business man on the US East coast or a young factory work on the West coast.We follow the intertwined stories of 4 men. Charlie Cocker is a rich businessman in Atlanta who, from the start, seems a bit tired with how is life is unfolding. Roger White is a young Atlanta lawyer, ambitious, with honorable work and family values. Roger Peepgrass is an executive banker, also in Altanta, dissatisfied with his job and with a messy personal life. And finally, Conrad Hensley is a young family man who works in a factory on the West coast.I found the prologue and the first 3-4 chapters difficult to read. I had even tried a sample of the book in the past and dropped it for something else. After reading The Bonfire of the Vanities (and absolutely loving it), I gave A Man in Full another try and boy was it worth it.I highly recommend if you love a story that follows different characters through a united, complex storyline.

Reviewer: Lady Chab
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Very fine characters, rythm, and style. A quite subtle and epic novel you can’t drop before last page! I recommend heartily.

Reviewer: Jules
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Such a fun read!The horse mating scene on its own is worth the price of the book!

Reviewer: Libor Vincent
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This book is not only a must-read for anyone who is active in the property business. The Interest-rate increase will put a lot of developers in a similar position as Charlie. The dynamics of this book represent the solutions and impact on society of large scale bankruptcies even nowadays. Netflix has found the perfect timing for a mini series based on this book.

Reviewer: Taruguet
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Una gran novela. Aquellos que comprendan bien el idioma Inglés disfrutarán de ella.