Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe describes the inner life of astronauts with almost uncanny empathetic powers....

Tom Wolfe's best-selling modern classic tells the story of Sherman McCoy, an elite Wall Street bond trader whose one wrong turn leads to a humiliating fall from grace....

Tom Wolfe's classic The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, LSD, and the 1960s, ushered in an era of New Journalism and defined a generation....

The setting is Atlanta, Georgia - a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta conglomerate king whose outsize ego has at last hit up against reality....

No one skewers the popular movements of American culture like Tom Wolfe....

The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong....

In these two devastatingly funny essays, Tom Wolfe examines political stances and social styles in our status-minded world....

Dupont University: the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition....

In Tom Wolfe's hands, the strange saga of American architecture in the 20th century makes for both high comedy and intellectual excitement...

Before he became a best-selling novelist (The Bonfire of the Vanities), Tom Wolfe was an essayist and keen observer of 1960s and 1970s culture for Esquire and Rolling Stone. This ear-candy collection of 20 essays and articles was handpicked by Wolfe....

A collection of non-fiction essays about the counter-culture of the 1960s that dives deep into the issues that marked the era: female empowerment, increasing freedom around sexuality, vibrant subcultures, and the rise of psychedelic drugs....

"An excellent book by a genius”, said Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this now-classic exploration of the 1960s from the founder of New Journalism and author of such influential works as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Bonfire of the Vanities....

A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now....

In this 1976 collection of essays, Americana icon Tom Wolfe explores the social status strife of the 1970s, eviscerating trends of faux-sympathy and self-absorption, going as far as to coin the term "The 'Me' Decade" to describe the period’s narcissism....

Dupont University: the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition....

As the producer of a prime-time TV news magazine, Irv Durtscher fancies himself the Federico Fellini of television journalism. The only problem is that no one else recognizes Irv's genius....

A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now....

Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and that...

Este realto provocó la prohibición de las obras de Wolfe en la Alemania hitleriana. En él, el autor nos muestra crudamente el drama de los...

"La fiesta de los Jacks aborda" de nuevo los aspectos más sórdidos y míseros de la sociedad, enfrentados esta vez a las diversiones, lujo...