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Tom Wolfe

    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".

    Tom Wolfe
    The Candlelit Home
    New Journalism
    Themes and Movements: Pop
    The Right Stuff
    Oh no, Joe!
    Remembering Jack
    • Remembering Jack

      Intimate and Unseen Photographs of the Kennedys

      • 432 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      A stirring collection of never-before-seen photographs of the Kennedy family presented in this seminal work by JFK's personal photographer, Jacques Lowe.

      Remembering Jack
      4.4
    • Oh no, Joe!

      • 30 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      A smooth-sailing bike trip to the store is abruptly stopped in its tracks. A bewildering situation requires swift investigation. What a predicament! It's not all fun and games, as one determined youngster with an uncalculated plan, attempts to match wits with a four-legged culprit named Joe. Oh no, Joe! is a fast-paced and fun time, read in rhyme. A celebration of unconditional love between a boy and his dog... because kind little people grow up to be kind big people.

      Oh no, Joe!
      5.0
    • 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.

      The Right Stuff
      4.3
    • Themes and Movements: Pop

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Exploring the evolution of Pop culture from the late 1950s to the late 1960s, this comprehensive survey examines its impact on art, film, photography, and architecture, highlighting the interplay between mass production and mass media. Unlike other works that focus solely on Pop art, it offers a holistic view of the movement's influence across America, Britain, and Europe, showcasing its diverse manifestations and cultural significance during this transformative era.

      Themes and Movements: Pop
      4.0
    • New Journalism

      • 432 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      With an anthology edited by Tom Wolfe and E. W. Johnson

      New Journalism
      4.2
    • The Candlelit Home

      Decorating with Candles Year-Round

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      Celebrating the candle as a home decorating item, the authors present more than a hundred well-illustrated ideas and settings designed to help readers choose and place candles for maximum effect.

      The Candlelit Home
      4.0
    • 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 purple decades
      3.9
    • Tom Wolfe’s modern American satire tells the story of Sherman McCoy, a Wall Street “Master of the Universe” who has it all — a Park Avenue apartment, a job that brings wealth, power and prestige, a beautiful wife, an even more beautiful mistress. Suddenly, one wrong turn makes it all go wrong, and Sherman spirals downward in a sudden fall from grace that sucks him into the ravenous heart of a New York City gone mad during the go-go, racially turbulent, socially hilarious 1980s. From the Trade Paperback edition.

      The bonfire of the vanities
      4.1
    • Mildred Pierce

      • 298 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter. Out of these elements, Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.

      Mildred Pierce
      4.0
    • 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.

      The painted word
      3.9