A Man in Full – Tom Wolfe – SIGNED – First Trade Edition, First Printing – 1998

Tom Wolfe

ISBN 10: 0374270325 / ISBN 13: 9780374270322

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998

About this Item

First trade edition, first printing. SIGNED by Tom Wolfe with a large, bold signature on the front free endpaper. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

Wolfe?s acclaimed second novel, following The Bonfire of the Vanities, and a major work of late-20th-century American fiction. Copyright page states ?First trade edition, 1998.?

Hardcover in the original pictorial dust jacket, retaining the publisher?s $28.95 price on the front flap. Gray boards with matching endpapers. The book presents very nicely, with a clean interior and a strong binding. Wolfe?s unusually large signature fills much of the front free endpaper and is especially attractive for display.

Dust jacket is also very well preserved, with only light evidence of handling/shelf wear visible in the photographs. Jacket is housed in a removable clear protective cover. No significant tears or losses apparent.

A handsome signed first edition, first printing copy with an exceptionally bold Tom Wolfe signature.

Seller Inventory # 306

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Man in Full ? Tom Wolfe ? SIGNED ? First Trade Edition, First Printing ? 1998
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374270325
• ISBN 13: 9780374270322
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 6W x 9H x 1.81D inches 6 inches width by 9 inches height by 1.81 inches depth
• Weight: 2.599 pounds
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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 behind bars, shady real-estate syndicates, cast-off first wives of the corporate elite, the racially charged politics of college sports--Wolfe shows us the disparate worlds of contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most phenomenal, most admired contemporary novelist.

A Man in Full is a 1998 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

About the Author

Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. As a reporter, he wrote articles for The Washington Post, the New York Herald Tribune, Esquire, and New York magazine, and is credited with coining the term, “The Me Decade.”

Among his many honors, Tom was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee University, graduating cum laude, and a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale. He lived in New York City.