Tom Wolfe. Stated first U.S. edition, first printing. New York: Farrah, Straus and Giroux, 1998. Both unclipped dust jacket and hardcover are in Near Fine condition. Jacket design by Susan Mitchell. No writing or markings in this clean, well preserved edition, 742 pp.
Wolfe's novel was called a "masterpiece" ~The Wall Street Journal
"The setting is Atlanta, Georgia in a racially mixed, late-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. 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's novel, his first in more than a decade (since Bonfire of the Vanities), was a National Book Award Finalist for Fiction in 1998.
