A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe torrent

Category: Adults, General Fiction, Literature
Language: EnglishKeywords: Political
Written by Tom Wolfe
Read by Michael Prichard
Format: M4B
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged
A Man in Full
By: Tom Wolfe
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 35 hrs and 37 mins
Release date: 07-17-18
Language: English
4.5 out of 5 stars339 ratings
Publisher’s summary
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.
2010 Tom Wolfe (P)2018 Random House Audio
Audiobook
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Literary Fiction
Political
Critic reviews
“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)
“A masterpiece.” (The Wall Street Journal)
“Superior…utterly engrossing.” (USA Today)
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*These were originally produces for Cassette tape but have no hiss and good quality so likely the mp3 files were from the studio, not ripped from tape.
*The MP3’s were 56k constant bitrate @ 22kHz mono. Each file being one side of a cassette tape with announcements.
*I’m converting my books to chaptered M4b so these are ripped to Variable Bit Rate, same kHz mono. The result is 47kbps VBR.
*Also added meta data/ID3.
A Man in Full
By: Tom Wolfe
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 35 hrs and 37 mins
Release date: 07-17-18
Language: English
4.5 out of 5 stars339 ratings

Publisher’s summary
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.

2010 Tom Wolfe (P)2018 Random House Audio
Audiobook
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Literary Fiction
Political
Critic reviews
“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)

“A masterpiece.” (The Wall Street Journal)

“Superior…utterly engrossing.” (USA Today)

More from the same
Author
The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Right Stuff
The Purple Decades
Narrator
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
Red Storm Rising
Rainbow Six

*These were originally produces for Cassette tape but have no hiss and good quality so likely the mp3 files were from the studio, not ripped from tape.
*The MP3’s were 56k constant bitrate @ 22kHz mono. Each file being one side of a cassette tape with announcements.
*I’m converting my books to chaptered M4b so these are ripped to Variable Bit Rate, same kHz mono. The result is 47kbps VBR.
*Also added meta data/ID3.