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A Man In Full by Tom Wolfe
Category: Accessories
Charlie Croker was once a fabled college football star and is now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real estate entrepeneur-turned conglomerate king, whose expansionist ambitions and outsize ego have at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 28,000 acre quail shooting plantation, a young and demanding seco ...Show more
A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
Category: Fiction
Atlanta conglomerate king, Charles Croker, has expansionist ambitions and an outsize ego. He also has a young and demanding second wife and a half-empty office tower running up debts. When a football star from Atlanta's grimmest slum is accused of rape, the city's racial balance is shattered.
A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
Category: Fiction
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. Charlie has a 29,000 ...Show more
Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe
Category: Fiction
As the police boat speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay, the scene is set for Officer Nestor Camacho's great moment of heroism. Except that in this feverous melting pot of a city, Nestor's one act of heroism can be seen as an utter betrayal of his Cuban roots. As Nestor's world disintegrates - his family ...Show more
Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe
Category: Fiction
As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay - with officer Nestor Camacho on board - Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, an ambitious young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; a psychiatrist who spe ...Show more
Kandy-kolored Tangerine-flake Streamlined Baby by Tom Wolfe
Category: Fiction
In 1965, Tom Wolfe dropped like a bomb onto the American literary scene with his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, an incandescent panorama of American counter-culture, its dances, bouffant hairdos, customised cars and rock concerts. Capturing the energy of the age in its po ...Show more
Simple Pleasures - The Art of Doris Lee by Melissa Wolfe; John Fagg (Contribution by); Tom Wolf (Contribution by)
Category: Art
Simple Pleasures presents the first major critical assessment of works by the artist Doris Lee (1904-1983). Lee was one of the most recognized artists in America during the 1930s and 40s, and was a leading figure in the Woodstock Artist's Colony. Her oeuvre reveals a remarkable ability to merge the redu ...Show more
THE PAINTED WORD by WOLFE TOM
Category: Art
"America's nerviest journalist" ("Newsweek") trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" ("The Washington Post") Wolfe's style has never been more dazzling, his wit never more keen. He addresses the scope of Modern Art, from its founding days as Abstract Expressionism through its transf ...Show more
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Category: Fiction
"Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed Master of the Universe . He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy ...Show more
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Category: Fiction
"An American classic" ("Newsweek") that defined a generation. "An astonishing book" ("The New York Times Book Review") and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, and the 1960s.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Category: Non-Fiction
Tom Wolfe's genre-defining ride through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversaryWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JARVIS COCKERIn the summer of 1964, author Ken Kesey and his Merry Band of Pranksters set out on a trip like no other. Blazing across America in thei ...Show more
The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Category: Biography
Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism, "An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. "An astonishing book" (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, LSD, and the 1960s.