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A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
$35.00 AUD
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
$32.95 AUD
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
From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe
$33.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Tom Wolfe, "America's most skillful satirist" ("The Atlantic Monthly"), examines the strange saga of American architecture in this sequel to "The Painted Word."
I Am Charlotte SimmonsA Novel by Tom Wolfe
$40.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Tom Wolfe, the master social novelist of our time, the spot-on chronicler of all things contemporary and cultural, presents a sensational new novel about life, love, and learning--or the lack of it--amid today's American colleges.Our story unfolds at fictional Dupont University: those Olympian halls of ...Show more
Paper Lion - Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback by George Plimpton; Tom Wolfe (Introduction by); Nicholas Dawidoff (Foreword by)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Sport
The book that made a legend-and captures America's sport in detail that's never been matched, now featuring an introduction by Tom Wolfe and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives. George Plimpton was perhaps best known for Paper Lion, the book that set the bar for participatory sports jo ...Show more
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Classic Wolfe, a funny, irreverent, and "delicious" ("The Wall Street Journal") dissection of class and status by the master of New Journalism."On the night of January 4, 1970, Maestro and Mrs. Leonard Bernstein threw a bash in their thirteen-room park Avenue pad to raise money for the Black Panthers De ...Show more
THE PAINTED WORD by WOLFE TOM
$30.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
"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
$20.00 AUD
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
$699.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1964, famed writer Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters set off across America on a “Transcontinental Bus Tour,” headed for the New York World’s Fair, and drinking (still perfectly legal) LSD-laced orange juice along the way. Kesey’s journey, in the company of his Merry Pranksters, lies at the ...Show more
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
"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
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics
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
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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.