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Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real estate syndicates -- Wolfe shows us contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most admired novelist.
Dial Press
November 2001
Featuring: Charlie Croker�
704 pages
ISBN: 0553381334
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The setting is Atlanta, Georgia -- 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. Meanwhile, Conrad Hensley, idealistic young father of two,
is laid off from his job at the Croker Global Foods
warehouse near Oakland 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 America with all
the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most
admired novelist. Charlie Croker's deliverance from his
tribulations provides an unforgettable denouement to the
most widely awaited, hilarious and telling novel America has
seen in ages -- Tom Wolfe's most outstanding achievement to
date.
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