The first Americans in space--Yeager, Conrad, Grissom, and Glenn--battle the Russians for control of the heavens and put their lives on the line to demonstrate a quality beyond courage, in this classic by Wolfe.
Tom Wolfe Books
March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018
Tom Wolfe, a founder of the New Journalism movement, delved into the inner workings of the mind, exploring the unconscious decisions that shape human lives. His signature style, marked by free association and onomatopoeia, became a hallmark of the genre. Wolfe's attention to the eccentricities of human behavior and language, and to questions of social status, is considered unparalleled in the American literary canon. He is also recognized for popularizing the term "fiction-absolute".
New Journalism
- 432 pages
- 16 hours of reading
With an anthology edited by Tom Wolfe and E. W. Johnson
The Pump House Gang
- 304 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Looking for new forms of status and power, the author travels from La Jolla to London in search of the 1960s subculture's wildest heroes. Reprint.
The purple decades
- 416 pages
- 15 hours of reading
In the 1960s and the 1970s Tom Wolfe rose to fame as a chronicler of the gaudiest period in American history. It began at a hot-rod custom-car show where he marvelled at the little nest of pink angora angel's-hair used for the purpose of glamorous display. It grew - with his fascination for the Las Vegas-style neon-sculpture boom and its electro-pastel surge through the suburbs - into the kandy-kolored tangerine - flake streamline baby and the new journalism was born.
The bonfire of the vanities.
- 726 pages
- 26 hours of reading
One night in the Bronx a millionaire, Sherman McCoy, and his mistress have an accident. The next day a young black is in hospital in a coma as McCoy heads for disaster. His humiliation is at the centre of a satire on the decaying class, racial and political structure of New York in the 1980s.
The author derails the great American myth of modern art in a scathing, witty, uncompromising critique of American art from the 1950s through the 1970s. Reprint.
"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".
From Bauhaus to our house
- 160 pages
- 6 hours of reading
A review of architectural trends in the twentieth century that attacks the modernist mainstream.
A man in full
- 752 pages
- 27 hours of reading
Efter fejlslagne satsninger begynder økonomien at smuldre for den hovedrige, storskrydende byggespekulant Charlie Croker, og sideløbende med hans nedtur fortælles flere andre historier, der tilsammen tager temperaturen på USA, politisk og økonomisk, netop nu
Photographs
- 200 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Annie Leibovitz's first book. All celebrity portraits: The Stones, Townsend, Michael Douglas, Patti Smith, Woody Allen, Clint Eastwood, etc. 142 pages; color and b&w photographic plates through out; 9.25 x 12.25 inches.
