A Man in Full

Having first brought his reportage to novel form with the highly successful The Bonfire of the Vanities (1998) that revolved around the vanities of life in 1980's New York, Tom Wolfe's follow up fiction piece leads us through the political and business foibles of Atlanta, Georgia, skirmishing with the respectability of the southern gentry against a backdrop of the threat of racial rioting. Not a short piece, but the satirist's wit, style and canny caricaturing make this a further fascinating insight into American business life and otherwise.