Publication

2001-10-30 - Dial Press Trade Paperback

Language

English

Word Count

176,000 words, Guess

Page Count

704 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivemaninfull00tomw
  • ISBN-100553381334
  • ISBN-139780553381337
  • Goodreads86172
  • Better World Books9780553381337
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCPS3573.O526M26 2005
  • DDC813/.54

Description

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.

First Sentence

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.

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