Title: disappointingly flat and limited
Product review: I laughed all the way through Bonfire, but had only an occassional chuckle with A Man in Full. Only two characters develop, and only because Wolfe needs a story line. I hope I missed most of the jokes because I know the northeast well and have little experience with Atlanta. If this is true,it is a novel someone else would enjoy. However, it also means that Wolfe is not writing literature for all times, but local fiction about a particular era. (Better to read John Irving's Widow for One Year: it's full of unlikeable characters, but they're real and one cares about them.)
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