Tom Wolfe

Het vreugdevuur der ijdelheden is een roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver Tom Wolfe. Het is diens eerste roman, uit 1987. Het verhaal is een drama over ambitie, racisme, sociale klassen, politiek en hebzucht in het New York van de jaren 80. De titel is een verwijzing naar het middeleeuwse vreugdevuur van de ijdelheden …

De trip: the electric kool-aid acid test is een roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver Tom Wolfe. Het boek kwam in 1971 in vertaling uit bij uitgeverij Bert Bakker. In dit literair-journalistieke werk wordt de schrijver Ken Kesey gevolgd als hij met een groep vrienden, de Merry Pranksters, in een bus door de Verenigde …

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 …

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby is the title of Tom Wolfe's first collected book of essays, published in 1965. The book is named for one of the stories in the collection that was originally published in Esquire magazine in 1963 under the title "There Goes That Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline …

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.