Title: A Societal Vista
Product review: This book is a vista, tying together many currents of society: 1) The dynamics of Atlanta and surrounding communities, 2) Life within African-American culture, 3) Boom-town developers and their genetically motivated underpinings, 4) The economically unsuccessful and their adaptations, 5) Political refugees from Asia, 6) The unremitting drive for the pursuit of status beyond any pretense of meeting basic needs, 7) Societal wars. This is a big vista, skillfully rendered. The ending is abrupt. Tom Wolfe himself said he didn't know how to end this appropriately, which shows. Yet the ending did appeal to me in its whimsicalness. A heck of a book.
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