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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Tom Wolfe's debut collection of essays - a brilliant, form-bending dive into the future of America as it careenedthrough the 1960s 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 A ...Show more
The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe
$33.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. "A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theory of evolution." (Dwight Garner, New York Times) Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us o ...Show more
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics
"What is it, I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan, or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? I decided on the simplest approach possible. would ask a few of the astronauts and find out- The men had it. Yeager. Co ...Show more
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
From "America's nerviest journalist" ("Newsweek")--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. "Tom Wolfe at his very best" ("The New York Times Book Review")
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
What is it, I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan, or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? I decided on the simplest approach possible. I would ask a few of the astronauts and find out - The men had it. Yeager. ...Show more