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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A masterpiece (The Wall Street Journal) of a novel by the era-defining author of The Bonfire of the Vanities soon to be a Netflix original limited series from David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) starring Jeff Daniels, Lucy Liu, and Diane Lane
Wolfe is a peerless observer, a fearless satirist, a genius in full. People
The setting is Atlanta, Georgia a racially mixed, late-twentieth-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A masterpiece (The Wall Street Journal) of a novel by the era-defining author of The Bonfire of the Vanities soon to be a Netflix original limited series from David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) starring Jeff Daniels, Lucy Liu, and Diane Lane

Wolfe is a peerless observer, a fearless satirist, a genius in full. People

The setting is Atlanta, Georgia a racially mixed, late-twentieth-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta conglomerate king whose outsize ego has at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 29,000-acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife, and a half-empty office complex with a staggering load of debt.

Meanwhile, Conrad Hensley, idealistic young father of two, is laid off from his job at the Croker Global Foods warehouse near Oakland, California, and finds himself spiraling into the lower depths of the American legal system.

And back in Atlanta, when star Georgia Tech running back Fareek the Canon Fanon, a homegrown product of the city s slums, is accused of date-raping the daughter of a pillar of the white establishment, upscale black lawyer Roger White II is asked to represent Fanon and help keep the city s delicate racial balance from blowing sky-high.

Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real estate syndicates Wolfe shows us contemporary turn-of-the-century America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him one of our most admired talked-about novelists.
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Tom Wolfe
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#1 New York Times bestseller

A masterpiece. The Wall Street Journal

Superior . . . utterly engrossing. USA Today

The novel contains passages as powerful and as beautiful as anything written not merely by contemporary American novelists but by any American novelist. . . . The book is as funny as anything Wolfe has ever written; at the same time it is also deeply, strangely affecting. The New York Times Book Review

Wolfe is a peerless observer, a fearless satirist, a genius in full. People

Also by Tom Wolfe:

The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
From Bauhaus to Our House
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
The Painted Word
The Right Stuff
Mauve Gloves & Madmen
Clutter & Vine
In Our Time
The Pumphouse Gang
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

Available wherever Bantam Books are sold
#1 New York Times bestseller

A masterpiece. The Wall Street Journal

Superior . . . utterly engrossing. USA Today

The novel contains passages as powerful and as beautiful as anything written not merely by contemporary American novelists but by any American novelist. . . . The book is as funny as anything Wolfe has ever written; at the same time it is also deeply, strangely affecting. The New York Times Book Review

Wolfe is a peerless observer, a fearless satirist, a genius in full. People

Also by Tom Wolfe:

The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
From Bauhaus to Our House
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
The Painted Word
The Right Stuff
Mauve Gloves & Madmen
Clutter & Vine
In Our Time
The Pumphouse Gang
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

Available wherever Bantam Books are sold