WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JARVIS COCKER In the summer of 1964, Tom Wolfe joined author Ken Kesey and his Merry Band of Pranksters as they set out on a trip like no other. Blazing across America in their day-glo schoolbus, doped up and deep 'in the pudding', the Pranksters' arrival on the scene - anarchic, exuberant and acid-infused - would turn on an entire counter-culture, and provide Wolfe with the perfect free-wheeling subject for this, his pioneering masterpiece of New Journalism.
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| Genre Book | : |
| Author Book | : TOM. WOLFE |
| Publisher | : Vintage Classic |
| Release Book | : 2018-08-16 |
| Download Book | : 368 Pages |
| ISBN-10 | : 1784873705 |
Radical Chic And Mau Mauing The Flak Catchers
The phrase radical chic was coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 when Leonard Bernstein gave a party for the Black Panthers at his duplex apartment on Park Avenue. That incongruous scene is re-created here in high fidelity as is another meeting ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment, in Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers.
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| Genre Book | : Social Science |
| Author Book | : Tom Wolfe |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Release Book | : 2010-04-01 |
| Download Book | : 160 Pages |
| ISBN-10 | : 142996118X |
The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby
"An excellent book by a genius," said Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this now classic exploration of the 1960s from the founder of new journalism. "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 and jazzing its way somewhere or other."--Newsweek In his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) Wolfe introduces us to the sixties, to extravagant new styles of life that had nothing to do with the "elite" culture of the past.
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| Genre Book | : Social Science |
| Author Book | : Tom Wolfe |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Release Book | : 2009-11-24 |
| Download Book | : 384 Pages |
| ISBN-10 | : 1429961031 |
The Kingdom Of Speech
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 on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech--not evolution--is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in the Kingdom of Speech.
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| Genre Book | : Social Science |
| Author Book | : Tom Wolfe |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown |
| Release Book | : 2016-08-30 |
| Download Book | : 160 Pages |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780316404648 |
The Purple Decades
Tom Wolfe's The Purple Decades brings together the author's own selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers, his account of the wild games the poverty program encouraged minority groups to play.
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| Genre Book | : Literary Collections |
| Author Book | : Tom Wolfe |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Release Book | : 1982-10-01 |
| Download Book | : 418 Pages |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781429955003 |
Sometimes A Great Notion
The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sailor Song is a wild-spirited and hugely powerful tale of an Oregon logging clan. A bitter strike is raging in a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers: Henry, the fiercely vital and overpowering patriarch; Hank, the son who has spent his life trying to live up to his father; and Viv, who fell in love with Hank's exuberant machismo but now finds it wearing thin. And then there is Leland, Henry's bookish younger son, who returns to his family on a mission of vengeance - and finds himself fulfilling it in ways he never imagined. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals, Ken Kesey crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy.
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| Genre Book | : Fiction |
| Author Book | : Ken Kesey |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Release Book | : 2006-08-29 |
| Download Book | : 640 Pages |
| ISBN-10 | : 144062299X |
Back To Blood
A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. 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, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his Latina nurse by day, loin lock by night-until lately, the love of Nestor's life; a refined, and oh-so-light-skinned young woman from Haiti and her Creole-spouting, black-gang-banger-stylin' little brother; a billionaire porn addict, crack dealers in the 'hoods, "de-skilled" conceptual artists at the Miami Art Basel Fair, "spectators" at the annual Biscayne Bay regatta looking only for that night's orgy, yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers at an "Active Adult" condo, and a nest of shady Russians. Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous bestselling novels, BACK TO BLOOD is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times.
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| Genre Book | : Fiction |
| Author Book | : Tom Wolfe |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown |
| Release Book | : 2012-10-23 |
| Download Book | : 896 Pages |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780316214582 |
The Pump House Gang
Looking for new forms of status and power, the author travels from La Jolla to London in search of the 1960s subculture's wildest heroes. Reprint.
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| Genre Book | : Social Science |
| Author Book | : Tom Wolfe |
| Publisher | : Bantam |
| Release Book | : 1999 |
| Download Book | : 281 Pages |
| ISBN-10 | : 0553380613 |
Food And Feast In Modern Outlaw Tales
This collection of scholarly essays presents new work from in an emerging line of inquiry: modern outlaw narratives and the textual and cultural relevance of food and feasting. Food, its preparation and its consumption, is presented in outlaw narratives as central points of human interaction, community, conflict, and fellowship. Feast scenes perform a wide variety of functions, serving as cultural repositories of manners and behaviors, catalysts for adventure, or moments of regrouping and redirecting narratives. The book argues that modern outlaw narratives illuminate a potent cross-cultural need for freedom, solidarity, and justice, and it examines ways in which food and feasting are often used to legitimate difference, create discord, and manipulate power dynamics.
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| Genre Book | : History |
| Author Book | : Alexander L. Kaufman |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Release Book | : 2019-03-21 |
| Download Book | : 232 Pages |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780429590177 |
The Further Inquiry
The head Prankster offers hundreds of photographs and transcripts of key episodes in a re-examination of the legendary adventure of the Merry Pranksters during their 1964 trip across America in a bus called "Further"
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| Genre Book | : Fiction |
| Author Book | : Ken Kesey |
| Publisher | : Viking Adult |
| Release Book | : 1990 |
| Download Book | : 215 Pages |
| ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015018979735 |
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