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A Man in Full is the second novel by Tom Wolfe, published on November 12, 1998, by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. It is set primarily in Atlanta , with a significant portion of the story also taking place in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area .
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick is a 1984 picture book written by the American author Chris Van Allsburg. It consists of a series of images, ostensibly created by Harris Burdick, a man who has mysteriously disappeared. Each image is accompanied by a title and a single line of text, which encourage readers to create their own stories.
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Tabb was born in London in March 1883, where his father owned a cycle manufacturing company. His first job was as newspaper cyclist in London at the age of 13. In 1921, he married and moved to Kidderminster, where he set up a cycle workshop business in the Stourbridge Road area of town. He ran the shop for 17 years. He retired when he was 75 ...
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The story opens with John Bracken, a hitman, in the James Memorial Park of an unnamed town; he is waiting for Norma Correzente, who is due to walk home from a casino through the park at 11:00 PM. Bracken has been paid $50,000 (equivalent to $234,000 in 2023) by Norma's husband, the 78 year-old Mafia Don Vittorio "Vito the Wop " Correzente, to ...
The baseball story "The Pitcher and the Plutocrat" (the US version of "The Goal-Keeper and the Plutocrat") was included in several anthologies, including Collier's Greatest Sports Stories published by A. S. Barnes in 1955 and edited by Tom Meany, [40] The Fireside Book of Baseball published by Simon and Schuster in 1956 and edited by Charles ...
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