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Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay -- with officer Nestor Camacho on board -- Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the ...Show more
Hooking Up - Essays and Fiction by Tom Wolfe
$16.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
A perfect introduction to Tom Wolfe's brilliant and masterful journalism.In Hooking Up Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, observing the 'lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000' - everything from teenage sexual manners to how genetics and neuroscience a ...Show more
I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
$25.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
2005 Audie Award FinalistAmerica's "peerless observer" (People) uncovers college life--from jocks to mutants, dormcest to tailgating--plus race, class, sex, and basketball Dupont University--the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured law ...Show more
Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine by Tom Wolfe
$15.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
"When are the 1970's going to begin?" ran the joke during the l976 presidential bid. In these stories and essays Wolfe meets the question head-on -- even providing the label "The Me Decade". Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe
$7.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is classic Tom Wolfe, a funny, irreverent, and delicious (The Wall Street Journal) dissection of class and status by the master of New Journalism The phrase 'radical chic' was coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 when Leonard Bernstein gave a party for the Black Pant ...Show more
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe
$8.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
Tom Wolfe's debut collection of essays - a brilliant, form-bending dive into the future of America as it careenedthrough the 1960s In 1965, Tom Wolfe dropped like a bomb onto the American literary scene with his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, an incandescent panorama of A ...Show more
The Purple Decades by Tom Wolfe
$15.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good-very good
Before he became a best-selling novelist (The Bonfire of the Vanities), Tom Wolfe was an essayist and keen observer of 1960s and 1970s culture for Esquire and Rolling Stone. (This is the man who coined the phrase Me Decade, after all.) This ear-candy collection of 20 essays and articles narrated by Edoa ...Show more
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