Title: A Titanic Novel?
Product review: At first blush it appears that the size and power of A Man In Full puts it roughly in the dreadnought class. Unfortunately, things soon sink rapidly. Readers suffer a heavy ordinance of a now familiar Wolfian device of contriving to place each character in the most tortuous situation possible. This gets old fast. Nor does the book tap into the Zeitgeist in the same way that Bonfire did. The biggest flaw here is the conclusion. Readers will heave an enormous yawn at the relently vapid and dippy culmination of this buxom volume. Don't buy the hype -- this book has about as much chance of becoming an enduring American classic as Tom Wolfe has of winning the Soul Train Lifetime Achievement Award.
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