Man in Full: A Novel - Rilegato

Wolfe, Tom

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ISBN 10: 0374270325 ISBN 13: 9780374270322

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998

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Charles Croker, a middle-aged, egotistical former college football star turned tycoon, finds his life turned upside down and the delicate racial balance of Atlanta threatened, when star running back Fareek Fanon, a product of the city's slums, is accused of raping an Atlanta aristocrat's daughter. 1,200,000 first printing. Tour.

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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 the 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.

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• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0374270325
• ISBN 13: 9780374270322
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 742