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In this, his first book and one of the landmarks of the New Journalism, Tom Wolfe managed to look at the American scene of the early 1960s afresh and to zero in on the more exotic forms of status-seeking then in vogue from New York to Los Angeles. In the dances, bouffant hairdos, stock-car racing and rock concerts, Wolfe found a unique American energy, and the incandescent style that produced The Right Stuff and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is already in evidence. In the title essay - Wolfe's first magazine article - he eulogizes the flamboyant 'kustomized kars' California teens constructed with artistic dedication. And there's more - Phil Spectre, Cassius Clay, Las Vegas, the Nanny Mafia, Why Doormen hate Volkswagens. Classic Wolfe!
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"He impales trends and fads, pretensions and swaggerings, with needle-sharp wit" (Sunday Times)
"A great example of how the genre cocked a snook at journalistic convention" (Metro)
"Tom Wolfe is a terrific writer" (Washington Monthly)
"This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years from now, when it will bring back, like a falcon in the sky of memory, a whole world that is currently jetting, or jazzing, its way to somewhere or other" (Newsweek)
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"A great example of how the genre cocked a snook at journalistic convention" (Metro)
"Tom Wolfe is a terrific writer" (Washington Monthly)
"This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years from now, when it will bring back, like a falcon in the sky of memory, a whole world that is currently jetting, or jazzing, its way to somewhere or other" (Newsweek)
'Verdict: excellent book by a genius' Kurt Vonnegut
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0099479389
- ISBN 13 9780099479383
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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