A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe
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Big men. Big money. Big games. Big libidos. Big trouble. A decade ago, The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era--and established Tom Wolfe as our prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. This time the setting is Atlanta, Georgia--a racially mixed late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth, avid speculators, and worldly-wise politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real-estate entrepreneur turned conglomerate king, whose expansionist ambitions and outsize ego have at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 28,000-acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife--and a half-empty office tower with a staggering load of debt. When star running back Fareek Fanon--the pride of one of Atlanta's grimmest slums--is accused of raping an Atlanta blueblood's daughter, the city's delicate racial balance is shattered overnight. Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life ...
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1998Uitgever: Farrar Straus Giroux742 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0374270325ISBN-13: 9780374270322Koop dit boek tweedehands
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in uitstekende staat, bovenkant boekblok iets verkleurd, schoon, 6e druk 1998 Farrar Straus & Giroux New York, gebonden, gekartonneerd, 742pp, vlotte verzending via PostNL in doos
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