A Man In Full.

WOLFE, Tom.

Item Number: 135024

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

First edition of this “masterpiece” (The Wall Street Journal). Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe on the title page. Fine in a fine jacket. Jacket art by Daniel Lee. Jacket design by Susan Mitchell.

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. “The novel contains passages as powerful and as beautiful as anything written — not merely by contemporary American novelists but by any American novelist. . . . The book is as funny as anything Wolfe has ever written; at the same time it is also deeply, strangely affecting" (The New York Times Book Review).