Published by Vintage, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
£9.99
Author:
Tom Wolfe
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099565888
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EAN: 9780099565888
Published: 7 Jun 2012
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 are changing the way we regard ourselves. Also included in this collection are some of his most classic and enduring pieces of journalism, and 'Ambush art at Fort Bragg', his fiercely satirical novella about sting TV.
Funny, often savagely so, hard-hitting and wise, Wolfe remains a unique master-chronicler of America and its future.
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I love Tom Wolfe... Whenever some big bizarro thing happens...I want the man in the white suit to do his usual exhaustive reporting, turn the labels inside out and hypocrites upside down...and tell me what's what in one of those jittering, dazzling riffs of his
- New York Times Book Review
Delicious
- Entertainment Weekly
The finest essayist-cum-novelist-cum-reporter of our era, Wolfe combines lively writing and endless energy with an astonishingly astute, ever-curious eye
- Forbes Magazine
A great introduction to Wolfe the nonfiction stylist
- Newsweek
Tom Wolfe is the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his BA at Washington and Lee University and a PhD in American studies at Yale. He lives in New York City.
