The pump house gang / Tom Wolfe
A sprawling collection of essays about the subcultures of the 1960s by Tom Wolfe, the revolutionary journalist and novelist When Tom Wolfe smashed his way into the literary scene in 1965 with The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, he transformed reporting in American popular culture. For...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Picador,
2022.
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| Edition: | First Picador edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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A sprawling collection of essays about the subcultures of the 1960s by Tom Wolfe, the revolutionary journalist and novelist When Tom Wolfe smashed his way into the literary scene in 1965 with The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, he transformed reporting in American popular culture. For his second book, Wolfe traveled from La Jolla to London in search of new lifestyles. The Pump House Gang is the result: a collection of essays that chronicles life at the end of the 1960s, written with all the panache and perceptiveness that made Wolfe one of our greatest American journalists. |
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| Note: | Originally published in 1968 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Call Number: | E169.Z8 W6 2022 |
| ISBN: | 1250891337 9781250891334 |