A man in full : a novel Item Preview > remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. The publication in 1998 of A Man in Full, Tom Wolfe's mammoth novel about the making of modern Atlanta, became the biggest single event in the city's cultural life since the world premiere in 1939 of Gone With the Wind at Loew's Grand Theater. A Man In Full is of course a fictional tale, but Charlie Croker’s dilemma is all too real. Wolfe’s second best-selling novel, A Man in Full, is intended to serve as another such work of reclamation. About A Man in Full. Share to Facebook. Share via email. It’s easy to become a slave to more – more money, more possessions, more recognition. Start your 48-hour free trial to unlock this A Man in Full study guide. - John O'Sullivan, The American Spectator A one-time college football star, he goes on to become a successful Atlanta real-estate developer who has "the power to charm men and the manic drive to bend their wills into saying yes to projects they didn't want, didn't need, and never thought about before." A dude at his best, a step above a renaissance man---Get a a man in full mug for your daughter-in-law Beatrix. Share to Reddit. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta conglomerate king whose … Share to Tumblr. It is the story of sixty-year-old Charlie Croker, an under-educated ex-college-football star who has developed much of the skyline of Atlanta, Georgia, out of sheer elan vital. " A Man in Full is rich in brilliant set-pieces, his usual scalpel-like social observation, fine parodies ranging from rap to Foucault speak, superb fictionalized reporting from the prison and the immigrant underworld, and the fizziest prose around." Tom Wolfe's Book `A Man in Full' Brings Surge of Interest in Stoicism / Ancient philosophy gaining attention in bookstores, on the Net James Rainey … Becoming a slave to such things means you’ll do anything to keep them, even if it means abandoning your principles. Share to Pinterest. The hero of the novel, Charlie Croker, appears at first glance to be "a man in full." Share to Twitter. The setting is Atlanta, Georgia — a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. young black man in a hit-and-run accident; in "A Man in Full," a black football star named Fareek Fanon is suspected of raping the daughter of a wealthy white businessman. Search a man in full and thousands of other words in English definition and synonym dictionary from Reverso.