"At certain points, reading [A Man in Full] can even be said to resemble the act of making love to a three-hundred pound woman. Once she gets on top, it's over. Fall in love, or be asphyxiated. So you read and you grab and you even find delight in some of these mounds of material. Yet all the while you resist — how you resist! — letting three hundred pounds take you over."
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Norman Mailer, review of A Man in Full in The New York Review of Books (17 December 1998)
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Tom Wolfe
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe (2 March 1931 - 14 May 2018), primarily known as Tom Wolfe, was a best-selling American author and journalist. He was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
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