Publisher's Synopsis
'A hugely enjoyable and impressive read, 800-odd pages of splendid plot, terrific characterization and astounding social detail, set in Atlanta and involving super-rich real-estate moguls, civic politics, racial tensions, a low-ranking banker's ambitious scam and an escaped convict. Dickens would have approved' Harry Ritchie, The Times Books of the Year
'Enthralling enough even to satisfy The Bonfire of the Vanities devotees . . . humane and redemptive' Ruth Rendell, Sunday Times Books of the Year
'You only to have to read the first sentence to be totally gripped' Miriam Gross, Sunday Telegraph
'A masterpiece . . . the difference between seeing the world in slices and seeing it in full' Andrew Ferguson, Wall Street Journal
'Powerful . . . beautiful . . . as funny as anything Wolfe has ever written; at the same time it is also deeply, strangely affecting' Michael Lewis, New York Times Book Review
'Right now, no writer or reporter or novelist is getting [the zeitgeist] on paper better than Tom Wolfe' Malcolm Jones Jr., Newsweek
'Wolfe is a peerless observer, a fearless satirist, a genius in full' Kyle Smith, People
'Fiercely and instantly addictive . . . this book will be a good friend to you' Martin Amis, Guardian
'A brilliant book - vast, satirical, moving, often profound' Justin Cartwright, Independent on Sunday
