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IF you always wanted to know what happens in a horse breeding barn—exactly how the mare is strapped down, and how she is aroused, and how the stud is maneuvered into place, and much more—you will find out in A Man in Full (it makes romance in the White House, by the way, look positively appetizing in comparison).

In a famous 1989 manifesto, Tom Wolfe took his scourge to contemporary novelists, trying to drive them out of the writing workshops and into the streets, to discover America, to report. In A Man in Full, Wolfe reports in lavish detail about such a range of human—and equestrian—activities that the effect is like one of those hyper-realistic paintings that makes you pause: Is it a painting or is it a photograph?

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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IF you always wanted to know what happens in a horse breeding barn—exactly how the mare is strapped down, and how she is aroused, and how the stud is maneuvered into place, and much more—you will find out in A Man in Full (it makes romance in the White House, by the way, look positively appetizing in comparison).

In a famous 1989 manifesto, Tom Wolfe took his scourge to contemporary novelists, trying to drive them out of the writing workshops and into the streets, to discover America, to report. In A Man in Full, Wolfe reports in lavish detail about such a range of human—and equestrian—activities that the effect is like one of those hyper-realistic paintings that makes you pause: Is it a painting or is it a photograph?