Beschreibung
A dissection of greed-obsessed America a decade afterThe Bonfire of the Vanitiesand on the cusp of the millennium, from the master chronicler of American culture Tom Wolfe
Charlie Croker, once a fabled college football star, is now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real estate entrepreneur-turned conglomerate king. His 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 downtown tower with a staggering load of debt. Wolfe shows us contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most admired novelist.
Enthralling enough even to satisfyThe Bonfire of the Vanitiesdevotees...humane and redemptive Sunday Times
Autorenportrait
Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was the author of more than a dozen books, among themThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,The Right Stuff,The Bonfire of the Vanities,A Man in Full,I Am Charlotte SimmonsandBack to Blood. He received the National Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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