Tom Wolfe - A Man in Full

The Bottom Line: Tom Wolfe took a bite from the Big Apple, now he sinks his teeth into the Big Peach in a well-written (though unsatisfying) novel of Atlanta society.

Review: One thing?s for sure, Tom Wolfe is no shy, wilting magnolia when it comes to writing fiction that grabs the reader by the eyeballs. In both A Man in Full and his first novel Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolfe?s prose is full-bodied, muscular and...

Review: This book,"A Man in Full", could have been, and in fact, should have been, a great one. After reading the first hundred or so pages, I was sure it would be. It had all of the necessary elements...a powerful, larger than life central character, a...

Review: "A Man in Full," Tom Wolfe's large-scale epic about the downfall of Charlie Croker, a self-absorbed self-made man, is certainly testament to Wolfe's ability to create gripping characters. Croker, as well as nearly every other character in this book,...

The Bottom Line: A Man in Full was a huge concept that would have done better to have ended with no resolution than with its pallid and unsatisfactory epilogue.

Review: I'm a slow reader. So when I get a slow read I'm happy. Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full was a nice slow read until the end when it became lazy and implausible. I would have thought an author of palpable intelligence would be ashamed of such an obvious...

Review: Do I have to do it again? Write my "disclaimer" paragraph, about how I am not writing a high school book report that has enough detail so the teacher will believe I really read the book? Well, for those of you who may have missed it... to...

Review: "Bonfire of the Vanities" took a long, hard deep look at the highfalutin New York crowd of the late 1980's and became on the decade's best selling and critically acclaimed books. It also spawned a truly horrid movie, but we can't blame that on the...

Review: This book is the best book I've ever read. Now that might not be saying much coming from a senior in high school. But come on, it was 750 pages. I was hooked for each and everyone of them. It is truly a great look into the lives of men in the 1990s...

Review: When Old Atlanta meets New Atlanta, men and women squash and get squashed in the process. It's a beautiful example of social hierarchy in action. This was my first Tom Wolfe read and have since read Bonfire of the Vanities with equal enthusiasm and...

Review: A Man in Full, like Bonfire of the Vanities graphically portrays the trials and triumphs of the main character(s). I found myself emphatically involved with the lead character in Bonfire of the Vanities, imagining my reactions if ever finding myself...

Review: The first book I read by Tom Wolfe was The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. This book although by the same author is not documentary in style. Based in Atlanta and focusing some on racial tensions and modern...