Tom Wolfe

Il falò delle vanità è un romanzo dello scrittore statunitense Tom Wolfe. La storia è un dramma che tratta di ambizione, razzismo e avidità nella New York degli anni ottanta e si incentra su tre personaggi principali: Sherman McCoy, un giovane, arrogante finanziere di successo; il sostituto procuratore ebreo Larry …

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a nonfiction book by Tom Wolfe that was published in 1968. The book is remembered today as an early – and arguably the most popular – example of the growing literary style called New Journalism. Wolfe presents an as-if-firsthand account of the experiences of Ken Kesey and his band of …

Dupont University--the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition . . . Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, …

A Man in Full is a novel by Tom Wolfe, published on November 12, 1998 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. It is set primarily in Atlanta, with a significant portion of the story also transpiring in the East Bay region of Northern California.

WHEN THE FUTURE BEGAN... THE MEN HAD IT. Yeager. Conrad. Grissom. Glenn. Heroes...the first Americans in space...battling the Russians for control of the heavens...putting their lives on the line. THE WOMEN HAD IT. While Mr. Wonderful was aloft, it tore your heart out that the Hero's Wife, down on the ground, had to …

La baby aerodinamica kolor karamella è la traduzione in italiano del volume di saggi di Tom Wolfe The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby pubblicato nel 1965. La raccolta prende il nome da uno dei primi scritti, inserito nel volume sulla cultura delle auto customizzate, già pubblicato da Wolfe sulla rivista …

Hooking Up is a collection of essays and a novella by American author Tom Wolfe, a number of which were earlier published in popular magazines. The essays cover diverse topics dating from as early as 1965, including both non-fiction and fiction, along with snipes at his contemporaries John Updike, Norman Mailer and …

From Bauhaus to Our House is a 1981 narrative of Modern architecture, written by Tom Wolfe.

Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is a 1970 book by Tom Wolfe. The book, Wolfe's fourth, is composed of two articles by Wolfe, "These Radical Chic Evenings," first published in June 1970 in New York magazine, about a gathering Leonard Bernstein held for the Black Panther Party and "Mau-Mauing the Flak …

The Painted Word is a 1975 book of art criticism by Tom Wolfe.