In the original dustsheet. Binding has an Image of a man with red and black title on the spine.

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A classic novel. Well trodden territory for Tom Wolff in a style we know and love. A big book about big people in a big city (Atlanta) in a big country with big problems. Money problems, society problems, culture and ethnicity, crime it is all here in this mighty book that reads really easily and is mostly very enjoyable. Maybe it could be a little shorter but then again, all the main players – and some of the less important ones too – are given ample attention and we get to know their character well for the story to unfold and the book to hold. Must admit that I skip the odd few paragraphs here and there when it goes on a bit and I do not like all characters equally but it is still a joy to read

Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. As a reporter, he wrote articles for The Washington Post, the New York Herald Tribune, Esquire, and New York magazine, and is credited with coining the term, “The Me Decade.” Among his many honors, Tom was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee University, graduating cum laude, and a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale. He lived in New York City.