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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评分如果想要参透当今美国上下纵横众生百相于一书,还得精彩传神鞭辟入里,这本1998年出版的畅销经典该是首选,曾高踞《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜首位达十周之久,引发了作者跟约翰·厄普代克、约翰·艾文、诺曼·梅勒之间就美国文学未来走向的论战。
评分如果想要参透当今美国上下纵横众生百相于一书,还得精彩传神鞭辟入里,这本1998年出版的畅销经典该是首选,曾高踞《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜首位达十周之久,引发了作者跟约翰·厄普代克、约翰·艾文、诺曼·梅勒之间就美国文学未来走向的论战。
评分如果想要参透当今美国上下纵横众生百相于一书,还得精彩传神鞭辟入里,这本1998年出版的畅销经典该是首选,曾高踞《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜首位达十周之久,引发了作者跟约翰·厄普代克、约翰·艾文、诺曼·梅勒之间就美国文学未来走向的论战。
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