Tom Wolfe: 34 books

Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and that. Third base was oral sex. Home plate was going all the way. That was yesterday. Here in the Year 2000 we can forget about necking....

Les années 1960 comme si vous y étiez. Los Angeles, New York, Londres... Cassius Clay, Cary Grant, Natalie Wood, les Beatles et les Rolling Stones... Phil Spector, le mannequin Jane Holzer, la danseuse topless Carol Doda, le collectionneur d'art contemporain Robert Scull, Hugh Hefner... Bien d'autres...

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) Millions of...

Le Bûcher des vanités des années 2010 " Miami est la seule ville d'Amérique – et même du monde, à ma connaissance – où une population venue d'un pays étranger a établi sa domination en l'espace d'une génération à peine. Je veux parler des Cubains de Miami. Ici, Nestor,...

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 our hero, officer Nestor Camacho, on board-Tom Wolfe is off and running headlong into the only city in the world where people from a...

Mon premier est un gratte-ciel. Mon deuxième est un grand ensemble. Mon troisième est une banque, ou une école, ou un bureau de poste. Mon tout se trouve à New York, Sarcelles, Rotterdam ou la Défense. C'est…le style international, à qui nous devons cubes de béton, façades en verre fumé...

Radical chic è lo spassoso e tagliente articolo in cui Tom Wolfe descrive il curioso fenomeno sociale, sorto alla fine degli anni Sessanta negli Stati Uniti, del corteggiamento da parte dell’élite newyorkese di ogni possibile rivoluzionario radicale, dagli antimilitaristi agli hippy psichedelici....

Diretto, avvincente, inconfondibile: è lo stile di Tom Wolfe, considerato, proprio grazie a "La baby aerodinamica kolor karamella", il padre nobile del New Journalism. La "baby aerodinamica" a cui si riferisce il titolo è un modo di personalizzare le automobili, ma si tratta...

"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...

After critiquing—and infuriating—the art world with The Painted Word, award-winning author Tom Wolfe shared his less than favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our Haus. In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth century architecture, Wolfe takes such...

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...

Big men. Big money. Big games. Big libidos. Big trouble. A decade ago, The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era--and established Tom Wolfe as our prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. This time the setting is Atlanta, Georgia--a racially mixed late-century...

" Au commencement était le verbe. " Mais l'était-il vraiment ? Tom Wolfe, le maestro des raconteurs d'histoires, enquête ici sur les origines de son principal outil de travail (et objet de passion) : la langue. Pour lui, pas de doute, c'est bien au langage – et non à l'évolution –...

In den vergangenen 150 Jahren wurden von der Entdeckung des Penizillins über die Entschlüsselung der menschlichen DNS bis zum Nachweis des Higgs-Bosons kolossale Fortschritte gemacht. Doch an einer der drängendsten Fragen der Menschheitsgeschichte - Wo liegt der Ursprung der menschlichen Sprache?...