Title: Wanted : Editor for Famous Former Journalist
Product review: Oh dear. This book provides indisputable evidence that once you become a Famous American Writer, no editor will dare to tell you when your writing stops being witty and perceptive and becomes instead a tedious, self-indulgent bore. No doubt Wolfe-as-reporter benefited mightily from the editor's pencil and A Man in (Very)Full shows all too clearly that Wolfe-as-novelist has retained this need. Repetitive, fetishistically obsessed with items of clothing, and badly paced, the book nonetheless still contains enough stunning passages to show what might have been. Finally, as others have already pointed out, the ending is a brutally incompetent disaster, a garbled summing up of the characters' fate. Presumably by this stage the author had had enough of his characters and their story, a sentiment many readers will have come to share.
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