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Bonfire of the Vanities
Av Tom Wolfe
Häftad, 2010
179 kr
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An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American proseSherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern …
Right Stuff
Av Tom Wolfe
Häftad, 2018
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
159 kr
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A wonderful novel and perfect book club choice, The Right Stuff is a wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America's early space programme.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY US ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY‘What is it,’ asks Tom Wolfe, ‘that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle…and wait …
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Av Tom Wolfe
Häftad, 2018
159 kr
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Tom Wolfe's genre-defining magical mystery tour through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversary.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JARVIS COCKERIn the summer of 1964, author Ken Kesey and his Merry Band of Pranksters set out on an awesome social experiment …
New Journalism
Av Tom Wolfe
Häftad, 1990
166 kr
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‘The hell with it . . . let chaos reign . . . louder music, more wine . . . All the old traditions are exhausted and no new one is yet established. All bets are off! The odds are cancelled! It’s anybody’s ballgame . . . ’Tom Wolfe introduces and exults in his generation’s journalistic talent:Truman …
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Av Tom Wolfe
Häftad, 1989
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
129 kr
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I looked around and people's faces were distorted...lights were flashing everywhere...the screen at the end of the room had three or four different films on it at once, and the strobe light was flashing faster than it had been...the band was playing but I couldn't hear the music...people were …
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
Av Tom Wolfe
Häftad, 2024
232 kr
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Now featuring an introduction by Geoff Dyer, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a wild, psychedelic, utterly Wolfe-ian romp through the rise of the counterculture movement of the 1960s. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is Tom Wolfes seminal portrait of Ken Kesey, one of the most magnetic figures of …
The Bonfire of the Vanities
A Novel
Av Tom Wolfe
Häftad, 2025
348 kr
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Reissued for today’s reader with a cover by the renowned artist Seymour Chwast and an introduction by the critically acclaimed author Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The Bonfire of the Vanities is vintage Tom Wolfe at his best. “No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since …
Man in Full
Av Tom Wolfe
Häftad, 2001
196 kr
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The setting is Atlanta, Georgia-a racially mixed, late-twentieth-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta conglomerate king whose outsize ego has at last hit up against reality. …
New York Stories
Landmark Writing from Four Decades of New York Magazine
Av Tom Wolfe, Adam Moss m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
173 kr
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The magazine that is the city that is the world Just in time for its fortieth anniversary, New York magazine presents a stunning collection of some of its best and most influential articles, stories that captured the spectacle, the turbulence, and the cultural realignments of the past four decades. …
Man In Full
Av Tom Wolfe
Häftad, 2011
175 kr
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NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIESA dissection of greed-obsessed America a decade after The Bonfire of the Vanities and on the cusp of the millennium, from the master chronicler of American culture Tom WolfeCharlie Croker, once a fabled college football star, is now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real estate …
Back to Blood
Av Tom Wolfe
Häftad, 2013
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
263 kr
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The Bonfire of the Vanities author, Tom Wolfe, ingeniously dissects the turbulent heart of America’s racial vortex in this exhilarating tale of sweltering MiamiAs the police boat speeds across Miami’s Biscayne Bay, the scene is set for Officer Nestor Camacho’s great moment of heroism. Except that …
I Am Charlotte Simmons
A Novel
Av Tom Wolfe
E-bok, 2004
246 kr
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Dupont University--the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America''s youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition . . . Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns, to …
Hooking Up
Av Tom Wolfe
Ljudbok, 2000
328 kr
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Nine unabridged essays from Hooking Up with five read by Tom Wolfe! Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and that. Third base was oral sex. Home plate was going all the way. That …
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Av Tom Wolfe
Häftad, 2024
229 kr
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An excellent book by a genius. Kurt Vonnegut A generation-defining portrait of the 1960s by the master of New Journalism. Tom Wolfe raised the banner for his high-octane brand of New Journalism with The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby , his first book of essays, which collects …
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
Av Tom Wolfe
Häftad, 2024
192 kr
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Now with an original introduction by David Brooks, Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is a funny and irreverent study of class and status by the master of New Journalism. Tom Wolfes two-act dissection of 1970s race relations in America is incisive and thought-provoking, an indispensable …
Right Stuff
Av Tom Wolfe
Häftad, 2024
225 kr
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Tom Wolfe at his very best ( The New York Times Book Review ), The Right Stuff is t he basis for the 1983 Oscar-winning film of the same name and the eight-part Disney+ miniseries. Reissued for todays reader with a cover by the renowned artist Seymour Chwast and an introduction by the New York …
Hooking Up
Av Tom Wolfe
Häftad, 2025
287 kr
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Tom Wolfe shows us the mad spectacle of American life at millennium’s end. Tom Wolfe surveys America on the threshold of a new millennium, observing “the lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000.” No corner of the frantically, gropingly changing …
In Our Time
Av Tom Wolfe
Häftad, 2025
266 kr
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In Our Time is a biting collection of Tom Wolfe’s essays and illustrations cataloging and critiquing the state of 1970s American society. In this slim but unsparing collection of razor-sharp observations and mordant caricatures, Wolfe reaffirms his role as the great chronicler, debunker, and …
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine
And Other Stories, Sketches, and Essays
Av Tom Wolfe
Häftad, 2025
279 kr
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A collection of impeccably observed stories, sketches, and essays in full, exuberant, classic Wolfe mode. Originally published in 1976, these stories, essays, and illustrations capture the full spectrum of the 70s (the Me Decade, in Wolfes memorable words), from the hilarious to the …
The Purple Decades
A Reader
Av Tom Wolfe
Häftad, 2025
266 kr
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The essential collection of Tom Wolfe’s writing on a turning-point era in modern American culture, newly repackaged and reissued with the original introduction by Joe David Bellamy. It was in the 1960s and 1970s—those “purple decades”—that Tom Wolfe rose to fame as one of the late-twentieth-century …
