- Acquaintance rape, African American lawyers, African Americans, Africna American lawyers
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.
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Contemporary, cool, ironic and plot-driven.
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 752
- Publisher
- Random House Audio, Bantam, Quality Paperbacks Direct
- Editions
- 44
- Language
- German, French, heb, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9782221086100
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Tom Wolfe was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. He was educated at Washington and Lee (B.A., 1951) and Yale (Ph.D., American Studies, 1957) universities. In December 1956, he took a job as a reporter on the Springfield (Massachusetts) Union. This was the beginning of a ten-year newspaper career, most of it spent as a general assignment reporter. For six months in 1960 he served as The Washington Post's Latin American correspondent and won the Washington Newspaper Guild's foreign news prize for his coverage of Cuba. In 1962 he became a reporter for the New York Herald-Tribune and, in addition, one of the two staff writers (Jimmy Breslin was the other) of New York magazine, which began as
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