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Genre/Form: | Legal stories Legal fiction (Literature) Fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Tom Wolfe |
ISBN: | 0374270325 9780374270322 0553381334 9780553381337 0553580930 9780553580938 |
OCLC Number: | 39339625 |
Performer(s): | Read by David Ogden Stiers. |
Description: | 742 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Prologue: Cap'm Charlie -- Chocolate Meca -- The Saddlebags -- Turpmtine -- Beige Half Brothers -- The Suicidal Freezer Unit -- In the Lair of the Lust -- Hello Out There, 7-Eleven Land -- The Lay of the Land -- The Superfluous Woman -- The Red Dog -- This Is--Not Right! -- The Breeding Barn -- The Arrest -- God's Cosmic Joke -- The Rubber Room -- Gotcha Back -- Epictetus Comes to Da House -- The Aha! Phenomenon -- The Trial -- Mai's Army -- The Real Buckhead -- Chambodia -- The Deal -- Gridiron Heroes -- Starring Darwell Scruggs -- Holding Hands -- The Screen -- The Spark of Zeus -- Epictetus in Buckhead -- The Bull and the Lion -- Roger Black -- The Manager -- Epilogue: A Man of the World. |
Responsibility: | Tom Wolfe. |
More information: |
Abstract:
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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