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Introduction: Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK |
| Author: Editor |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1999 |
| Size: 365 Words, 2,206 Characters |
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When consummate journalist Tom Wolfe turned his hand to fiction during the 1980s, the resulting novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), defined the decade. Contemporary novelists, Wolfe had observed on numerous occasions, were too intoxicated with metafiction or psychology...
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...nce again at capturing the surface of American culture. Racial politics loom large. Virtually every character confronts the issue of manliness--as commentator Philip Gerard writes, "what it means to be a man in the contemporary world, and what it takes." Contributing editor Cynthia Grenier discusses the development of Wolfe's career and values, sharing as well a glimpse of the writer at work.
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