Description: In this novel, set in present-day Atlanta, Wolfe reveals the disparate worlds of contemporary America as he chronicles the story of an event that shatters the city's delicate racial balance.
Review Quotes: #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
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