Title: The Human Comedy
Product review: I'm surprised that "A Man in Full" hasn't gotten more 4- and 5-star reviews. It may not be Dostoevesky, but it IS great popular fiction -- a clever send up of the manic drive for status that fuels American consumption and blights our culture. The book succeeds on different levels. For one thing, it's simply a great read: the plot is lively, the characters are deftly-drawn, and laugh-out-loud scenes abound. The book is also superbly reported: readers learn about horse-breeding, bankruptcy workouts, jail life, racial politics, courtship amongst the 1%, Stoicism, and much, much more. Finally, the story actually has a moral: namely, that people who accumulate piles of wealth at the cost of their souls (and their relationships) strike a bad bargain with life. To be fair, parts of "A Man in Full" read like journalism rather than fiction, but that didn't bug me. I loved the book and wish it had been 300 pages longer.
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