742 pages
English language
Published Nov. 13, 1998 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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A satire on America featuring a capitalist trying to avoid ruin. The hero is Charlie Croker of Atlanta whose plantation and skyscraper face repossession by banks for non-repayment of a loan. One way out might be to request leniency in return for hushing up a rape.
Subjects
- Political corruption
- Practical Politics
- Conglomerate corporations
- African American lawyers
- Acquaintance rape
- African Americans
- Fiction
Places
- Atlanta (Ga.)