Atlanta, Georgia. Hier in diesem amerikanischen Schmelztiegel droht das Gleichgewicht der Rassen und Klassen, getragen vom permanent steigenden Wohlstand, mit Zunahme der wirtschaftlichen Schwierigkeiten zu kippen. So stoßen die Expansionswünsche des überdrehten Egos von Charles Croker plötzlich an Grenzen. Der idealistische Conrad Hensley, Vater von zwei Kindern, blickt dagegen mit dem Verlust seines Jobs dem sozialen Abstieg direkt ins Auge.

Zusatztext #1 New York Times bestseller A masterpiece. The Wall Street Journal Superior . . . utterly engrossing. USA Today 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 Wolfe is a peerless observer! a fearless satirist! a genius in full. People Also by Tom Wolfe: The Bonfire of the Vanities The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test From Bauhaus to Our House The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby The Painted Word The Right Stuff Mauve Gloves & Madmen Clutter & Vine In Our Time The Pumphouse Gang Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers Available wherever Bantam Books are sold Informationen zum Autor Tom Wolfe Klappentext 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. Chocolate Mecca For a while the Freaknic traffic inched up Piedmont ... inched up Piedmont ... inched up Piedmont ... inched up as far as Tenth Street ... and then inched up the slope beyond Tenth Street ... inched up as far as Fifteenth Street ... whereupon it came to a complete, utter, hopeless, bogged-down glue-trap halt, both ways, northbound, southbound, going and coming, across all four lanes. That was it. Nobody was moving on Piedmont Avenue; not anywhere, not any which way; not from here; not for now. Suddenly, as if they were pilots ejecting from fighter planes, black boys and girls began popping out into the dusk of an Atlanta Saturday night. They popped out of convertibles, muscle cars, Jeeps, Explorers, out of vans, out of evil-looking little econo-sports coupes, out of pickup trucks, campers, hatchbacks, Nissan Maximas, Honda Accords, BMWs, and even ordinary American sedans. Roger Too White and in that moment this old nickname of his, Roger Too White, which he had been stuck with ever since Morehouse, came bubbling up, uninvited, into his own brain Roger Too White stared through the windshield of his Lexus, astonished. Out the passenger-side window of a screaming-red Chevrolet Camaro just ahead of him, in the lane to his left, shot one leg of a pair of fiercely pre-faded blue jeans. A girl. He could tell it was a gi...

1 New York Times bestseller

“A masterpiece.”—*The Wall Street Journal

• “Superior . . . utterly engrossing.”—***USA Today**
• “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**

• “Wolfe is a peerless observer, a fearless satirist, a genius in full.”—People

  Also by Tom Wolfe:

  The Bonfire of the Vanities
  The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
  From Bauhaus to Our House
  The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
  The Painted Word
  The Right Stuff
  Mauve Gloves & Madmen
  Clutter & Vine
  In Our Time
  The Pumphouse Gang
  Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
  
  Available wherever Bantam Books are sold

  Autorentext

  Tom Wolfe

  Klappentext

  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.

  Zusammenfassung
  #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • “A masterpiece” (The Wall Street Journal) of a novel by the era-defining author of The Bonfire of the Vanities—now a Netflix original limited series from David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) starring Jeff Daniels, Lucy Liu, and Diane Lane

  “Wolfe is a peerless observer, a fearless satirist, a genius in full.”—People

  The setting is Atlanta, Georgia—a racially mixed, late-twentieth-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, California, 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 …