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A carregar... A Man in Full (original 1998; edição 2001)por Tom Wolfe (Autor)
Informação Sobre a ObraA Man in Full por Tom Wolfe (1998)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. El mundo de Charlie Croker se desmorona: en la cima del mayor imperio inmobiliario de Atlanta, solicita en un arranque de megalomanía un crédito bancario que no puede pagar. Además, con 60 años recién cumplidos -y una segunda esposa de apenas 28- este hombre, hecho a sí mismo, empieza a detectar los primeros signos de la vejez. Perseguido por la entidad bancaria que antes lo adulaba y que ahora empieza a acosarle, Croker deberá recorrer un largo calvario. This the first Tom Wolfe novel I have read and while it had good moments, especially several of the Conrad chapters, I felt that it ended like an unfinished thought. The epilogue was a weak way to settle the story and I would have preferred to hear final thoughts from the individual characters. The balance between staging, narrative and resolution was inadequate. The story began to fall down at the point where Charlie and Conrad arrived at Turpemtine which, in itself, lacked explanation and credibility. I am not sure what happened that caused Wolfe to truncate all of the story arcs at that point. Other minor details bothered me. The location of the Croaker foods in El Cerrito is impossible–at best the warehouse would have been in the Richmond annex but probably north in Richmond. Wolfe clearly had little idea of bay area geography and locality. It is disappointing to see incorrect details about an area you know because it leads to to suspect the accuracy of other details that are less familiar. I was enamored with this book when I first read it, largely because it took place in Atlanta, and Wolfe got so many details down so solidly. But, in retrospect, the book didn't hold up as much as "Bonfire" - and I eventually decided I was more of an Updike guy than a Wolfe guy. (Apparently, sides must be chosen...) This book did introduce me to Epictetus, the stoic philosopher, and it allowed me to meet Wolfe during his book tour, which started here in Atlanta. And the book made me want to write, so it must've been more inspiring than my three stars give it credit for! I first read this book about 25 years ago, and remembered it as being outstanding. So much so, that I purchased it again after having loaned it out and thus losing it forever. While I remembered the basic premise (a wealthy, peckerwood Atlanta real estate developer goes bankrupt and gets drawn into a racial firestorm), it is the details that make this novel so entertaining. I’ve read some of the criticisms, and while I concede that some have merit, the simple fact is, this novel is, at times, uproaringly funny, and at other times simply engrossing. The characters are almost Dickens-like in their appeal, from the mid-level loan officer, Ray Peepgas (is that not a Dickens name) to the Black attorney Roger White II, nicknamed Roger Too White to the chief protagonist, Charley Croker (the Sixty Minute Man), Wolfe constantly crafts dialogue that is just too good to be believed. I must admit I was not wild about the ending, which kind of ran out of steam, but for 600 plus pages, this story was a pleasure to consume for a second time.
"A Man Half Full": The longer one reads A Man in Full, the more one comes to decide that no matter its large virtues, it was chosen by the author to be a best seller rather than a major novel... The book has gas and runs out of gas, fills up again, goes dry. It is a 742-page work that reads as if it is fifteen hundred pages long. This is, to a degree, a compliment, since it is very rich in material. But, given its high intentions, it is also tiresome, for it takes us down the road of too many overlong and predictable scenes. Electric at best, banal at worst—banal like a long afternoon spent watching soap operas—one picks it up each day to read another hundred pages with the sense that the book not only offers pleasure but the strain of encountering prose that disappoints as often as it titillates. PrémiosDistinctionsNotable Lists
A satire on America featuring a capitalist trying to avoid ruin. The hero is Charlie Croker of Atlanta whose plantation and skyscraper face repossession by banks for non-repayment of a loan. One way out might be to request leniency in return for hushing up a rape. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Page 259, said by Harry Zale: Lenin had it easy. He didn't have to clean after a shithead like Charlie Croker. ( )