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The Right Stuff
Tom WolfeIt is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny emapthetic powers, that made this book a classic.
Conversations with Tom Wolfe
Dorothy McInnis ScuraGathers interviews with Tom Wolfe from each period of his career and offers a brief profile of his life and accomplishments
A Man in Full
Tom WolfeTom Wolfe was the razor sharp chronicler of the 1980s and now boldly turns to dissect greed-obsessed America on the cusp of the millenium.
Novaja žurnalistika i antologija novoj žurnalistiki
Tom Wolfe' Tom Wolfe introduces and exults in his generation's journalistic talent: Truman Capote inside the mind of a psychotic killer Hunter S. Thompson skunk drunk at the Kentucky Derby Michael Herr dispatching reality from the Vietnam killing ...
From Bauhaus to Our House
Tom WolfeTom Wolfe, "America's most skillful satirist" (The Atlantic Monthly), examines the strange saga of American architecture in this sequel to The Painted Word, From Bauhaus to Our House.
Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine
Tom WolfeWith his own patented combination of serious journalism and dazzling comedy, Tom Wolfe met the question head-on in these rollicking essays in Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine -- and even provided the 1970s with its name: "The Me ...
Hooking Up
Tom WolfeAlso included in this collection are some of his most classic and enduring pieces of journalism, and 'Ambush at Fort Bragg', his fiercely satirical novella about sting TV. Funny, often savagely so, hard-hitting, wise, Wolfe remains a unique ...
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom WolfeLong considered one of the greatest books about the history of the hippies, Wolfe's ability to research like a reporter and simultaneously evoke the hallucinogenic indulgence of the era ensures that this book, written in 1967, will live ...
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom WolfeThe Bonfire of the Vanities is a caustic satire on the money-feverish Eighties. This exuberant novel cemented Wolfe's reputation as the foremost chronicler of his age.
The High Himalaya
Art Wolfe-- The new book by Art Wolfe, internationally acclaimed nature photographer -- Intimate interviews with world-renowned climbers Ed Viesturs, Doug Scott, and Reinhold Messner -- 160 stunning full-color photographs Art Wolfe has achieved what ...
Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis'The funniest book about Wall Street I have ever read' Tom Wolfe, author of The Bonfire of the Vanities
Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader
Peter WrightThis new study of the fiction of Gene Wolfe, one of the most influential contemporary American science fiction writers, offers a major reinterpretation of Gene Wolfe’s four-volume The Book of the New Sun and its sequel The Urth of the New ...
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Tom WolfeOriginally published: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965.
The Lost Boy: A Novella
Thomas WolfeGrover Gant, a young boy who died of typhoid fever at the turn of the century, is portrayed through the eyes of family members Thomas Wolfe's The Lost Boy is a captivating and poignant retelling of an episode from Wolfe's childhood.
The Longest Cave
Roger W. Brucker... Gary F. Wischmeyer, Michael A. Wolfe, Douglas Arthur Wolfe, Nancy Wolfe, Thomas Edward Wright, Herbert E., Jr. Wright, Richard F. Wykes, Robert A. Yarnell, Jean Black Yarnell, Richard A. Yasney, Barbara J. Yoder, Diane Kathleen Zeller, ...
I Am Charlotte Simmons
Tom WolfeDupont University - the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition.
The Good Child's River
Thomas WolfeThe work was based loosely on the early life of New York stage and costume designer Aline Bernstein, with whom Wolfe
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Tom Wolfe"This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years from now, when it will bring back, like a falcon in the sky of memory, a whole world that is currently jetting and jazzing its way somewhere or other.
I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel
Tom WolfeAt Dupont University, an innocent college freshman named Charlotte Simmons learns that her intellect alone will not help her survive.
The Kingdom of Speech
Tom WolfeFrom Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that ...
Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas WolfeThis new edition includes an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian. Wolfe's second novel, Of Time and the River, continuing the story of Eugene Gant, is also now available in Penguin Classics.
The Pocket Magazine
More editionsAnd I answered, “What the devil does Tom Vowler want?” “Wrong end forward,” he cried. “It is the devil that is prowling for Tom Vowler; and small account the others be; but now he calleth—Tom, Tom, Tom ” This was beyond my understanding.
Colorado Keys: A Cary Wolfe Novel Book One
Tom HuckabeeI was happy to be pulled from it by the call. “Cary, this is Paul. How are you doing?” the familiar voice came through the phone. “Paul, how the hell are you?” “I need a favor. Can you get to Aspen?
Thomas Wolfe and the Politics of Modernism
Shawn HollidayThis book combats the academic and critical inertia that currently surrounds Wolfe by exploring his complex relationship to modernism.
New York Magazine
Full viewMichael Mok of the "News" getting the story: the fat man had to fish him out with an oar. Tom Wolfe in 1963: Portrait of the artist as a. That was Someday, you understand . . . Meanwhile, these dreamboaters were in there banging away, in every ...
Fear And Loathing In America: The Brutal Odyssey of an ...
Hunter S. ThompsonLetters spanning the years between 1968 and 1976 highlight the author's biting wit, scary powers of observation, and encounters with such notables as Jimmy Carter, Tom Wolfe, and Kurt Vonnegut.
Fighting Ruben Wolfe
Markus Zusak' The Wolfe brothers know how to fight. They've been fighting all their lives. Now there's something more at stake than just winning. A powerful, poignant novel from the author of the international bestseller, The Book Thief.
Back to Blood
Tom WolfeThe Cuban mayor, a Yale-marinated journalist, the black police chief, a Haitian professor whose ambitions to be French are thwarted by his Creole-spouting son, the clueless baying art-buyers and an Anglo billionaire porn addict all come up ...
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