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Wolfe, Tom A Man in Full
NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, 1st Trade Edition Hardcover BOOK Very Good
Book is a 9 1/2" x 6 1/2" hard cover with pictorial boards, 742 pages Condition: book is near fine, no defects Dust jacket: dust jacket is near fine, no defects. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, 1st Trade Edition. Literature & Fiction. Tom Wolfe is at it again with a " pitch perfect coast to coast portrait of our wild and woolly, no holds barred, multifarious country on the cusp of the millennium. Wolfe shows us contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most admired novelist.
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Tom Wolfe The Bonfire of the Vanities
Bantam 1988 0553275976 / 9780553275971 Paperback Good
0553275976 Amazon.com After Tom Wolfe defined the '60s in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and the cultural U-turn at the turn of the '80s in The Right Stuff, nobody thought he could ever top himself again. In 1987, when The Bonfire of the Vanities arrived, the literati called Wolfe an "aging enfant terrible." He wasn't aging; he was growing up. Bonfire's pyrotechnic satire of 1980s New York wasn't just Wolfe's best book, it was the best bestselling fiction debut of the decade, a miraculously realistic study of an unbelievably status-mad society, from the fiery combatants of the South Bronx to the bubbling scum at the top of Wall Street. Sherman McCoy, a farcically arrogant investment banker (dubbed a "Master of the Universe," Wolfe's brilliant metaphorical co-opting of a then-important toy for boys), hits a black guy in the Bronx with his Mercedes and runs--right into a nightmare peopled by vicious mistresses, thin wives like "social x-rays," slime-bag politicos, tabloid hacks, and Dantesque denizens of the "justice" system. If the Coen and Marx brothers together dramatized The Great Gatsby, Wolfe's Bonfire would probably be funnier. Many think his second novel, A Man in Full, is deeper, but Bonfire will never die down. You might find it interesting to compare the film The Bonfire of the Vanities, a fascinating calamity perpetrated by the geniuses Brian De Palma and Tom Hanks, with The Right Stuff, one of the very best films of the '80s. --Tim Appelo From Publishers Weekly In his spellbinding first novel, Wolfe proves that he has the right stuff to write propulsively engrossing fiction. Both his cynical irony and sense of the ridiculous are perfectly suited to his subject: the roiling, corrupt, savage, ethnic melting pot that is New York City. Ranging from the rarefied atmosphere of Park Avenue to the dingy courtrooms of the Bronx, this is a totally credible tale of how the communities uneasily coexist and what happens when they collide. On a clandestine date with his mistress one night, top Wall Street investment banker and snobbish WASP Sherman McCoy misses his turn on the thruway and gets lost in the South Bronx; his Mercedes hits and seriously injures a young black man. The incident is inflated by a manipulative black leader, a district attorney seeking reelection and a sleazy tabloid reporter into a full-blown scandal, a political football and a hokey morality play. Wolfe adroitly swings his focus from one to another of the people involved: the protagonist McCoy; Kramer, the assistant D.A.; two detectivesone Irish, the other Jewish; a slimy, alcoholic British journalist; an outraged judge, etc. He has an infallible, mocking ear for New York voices, rendering with equal precision the defense lawyer's "gedoutdahere," the deliberate bad grammar ("that don't help matters") of the wily "reverend" and the clenched-teeth WASP locution ('howjado"). His reporter's eye has seized every gritty detail of the criminal justice system, and he is also acute in rendering the hierarchy at a society party. He convincingly equates the jungles of Wall Street and the Bronx: in both places men casually use the same four-letter expletives and, no matter what their standing on the social ladder, find that power kindles their lust for nubile young women. Erupting from the first line with noise, color, tension and immediacy, this immensely entertaining novel accurately mirrors a system that has broken down: from the social code of basic good manners to the fair practices of the law. It is safe to predict that the book will stand as a brilliant evocation of New York's class, racial and political structure in the 1980s. 200,000 first printing; $200,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild dual main selection; author tour. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Tom Wolfe The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel
Picador 2008 0312427573 / 9780312427573 Paperback New
0312427573 From the Publisher Vintage Tom Wolfe, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" (The National Review) People Magazine Brillian -Bonfire illumines the modern madness that [was] New York in the 1980s with the intense precision of a laser beam. Newsweek It's the human comedy, on a skyscraper scale and at a taxi-meter pace... People Brilliant... Washington Post Book A superb human comedy and the first novel ever to get contemporary New York, in all its arrogance and shame and heterogeneity and insularity, exactly right. Philadelphia Inquirer A smash... Business Week Marvelous... New York Times Book Review A big, bitter, funny, craftily plotted book that grabs you by the lapels and won't let go. Wall Street Journal Impossible to put down... Washington Post Book World Richly entertaining... New York Times Delicious fun... Publishers Weekly In his spellbinding first novel, Wolfe proves that he has the right stuff to write propulsively engrossing fiction. Both his cynical irony and sense of the ridiculous are perfectly suited to his subject: the roiling, corrupt, savage, ethnic melting pot that is New York City. Ranging from the rarefied atmosphere of Park Avenue to the dingy courtrooms of the Bronx, this is a totally credible tale of how the communities uneasily coexist and what happens when they collide. On a clandestine date with his mistress one night, top Wall Street investment banker and snobbish WASP Sherman McCoy misses his turn on the thruway and gets lost in the South Bronx; his Mercedes hits and seriously injures a young black man. The incident is inflated by a manipulative black leader, a district attorney seeking reelection and a sleazy tabloid reporter into a full-blown scandal, a political football and a hokey morality play. Wolfe adroitly swings his focus from one to another of the people involved: the protagonist McCoy; Kramer, the assistant D.A.; two detectives one Irish, the other Jewish; a slimy, alcoholic British journalist; an outraged judge, etc. He has an infallible, mocking ear for New York voices, rendering with equal precision the defense lawyer's "gedoutdahere,'' the deliberate bad grammar ("that don't help matters'') of the wily "reverend'' and the clenched-teeth WASP locution ("howjado''). His reporter's eye has seized every gritty detail of the criminal justice system, and he is also acute in rendering the hierarchy at a society party. He convincingly equates the jungles of Wall Street and the Bronx: in both places men casually use the same four-letter expletives and, no matter what their standing on the social ladder, find that power kindles their lust for nubile young women. Erupting from the first line with noise, color, tension and immediacy, this immensely entertaining novel accurately mirrors a system that has broken down: from the social code of basic good manners to the fair practices of the law. It is safe to predict that the book will stand as a brilliant evocation of New York's class, racial and political structure in the 1980s. Michael Rogers - Library Journal Wolfe's first foray into fiction was a Goliath success, becoming a No. 1 best seller nationwide as well as morphing into a feature film (which, alas, stunk badly). It's a laugh-out-loud dark comedy in addition to being a page-turning tale of power, politics, greed, and justice. Library Journal Insulation is the key to living in New York, according to millionaire bond salesman Sherman McCoy, insulation from "them.'' So when he makes a wrong turn one night and finds himself driving through the South Bronx in his Mercedes, he panics. In his haste to get back to Manhattan he sideswipes a pedestrian; made tabloid news by a sleazy reporter, the incident has every politician in town crying for McCoy's blood. As some critics have long maintained, Wolfe's genius may be better suited to fiction than to journalism; his novel has all the knowledge, insight, and wit of earlier w
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Tom Wolfe The Right Stuff
Picador 2008 0312427565 / 9780312427566 Paperback New
0312427565 From the Publisher 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) Los Angeles Times Breathtaking ... epic ... There are images and ideas in The Right Stuff that glisten like a rocket screaming to the heavens. People An exhilarating flight into fear, love, beauty and fiery death ... magnificent. Boston Globe Romantic and thrilling ... One of the most romantic and thrilling books ever written about men who put themselves in peril. Chicago Tribune It's magic ... the best book I have read in the last ten years. New York Times Book Review It is Tom Wolfe at his very best ... technically accurate, learned, cheeky, risky, touching, tough, compassionate, nostalgic, worshipful, jingoistic. The Right Stuff is superb. Michael Rogers - Library Journal Wolfe's 1979 volume chronicled the handful of adrenaline-junkie military test pilots who became the Mercury astronauts. Their story is juxtaposed against that of Chuck Yeager, the ace of aces pilot who broke the sound barrier but couldn't apply to the space program because he lacked a college degree. Wolfe also provides insight into the political motivations for the space race and the paranoia of the Cold War. A terrific read from beginning to end, and, unlike Bonfire above, the film version is fabulous (make sure to have it in your DVD collection). People Magazine The Right Stuff is an echilarating flight into fear, love, beauty and fiery death... Magnificent. Time Magazine Crammed with inside poop and racy incident... fast cars, booze, astro groupies, the envies and injuries of the military caste system... Wolfe lasys it all out in brilliantly staged Op Lit scenes. Newsweek A book about the nerviest men in America by America's nerviest journalist. Los Angeles Times BREATHTAKING... Epic... There are images and ideas in The Right Stuff that glisten likw a rocket screaming to the heavens. Boston Globe ROMANTIC AND THRILLING... One of the most romantic and thrilling books ever written about men who put themselves in peril. New York Times Book Review SUBERB... It is Tom Wolfe at his very best... It is technically accurate, learned, cheeky, risky, touching, tough, compassionate, nostalgic, worshipful, jingoistic -- The Right Stuff is suberb. Washington Monthly What a hit!... A fun read; one of those books that you don't want to put down... Tom Wolfe is a terrific writer... The Right Stuff is the best thing he has ever done. What People Are Saying Michael Collins Improbable as some of Tom's tales seem, I know he's telling it like it was. Synopsis The Right Stuff is Tom Wolfe's deft account of a cast of heroes, introduced to America with the explosion of space exploration in the romantic heyday of the 20th century and encapsulated in Neal Armstong's "one giant step for mankind." Beginning with the first experiments with manned space flight in the 1940s, remembering the feats of Chuck Yeager and the breaking of the sound barrier, and focusing in on the brave pilots of the Mercury Project, Wolfe's ability to marry historical fact with dramatic intensity is nowhere more evident than in The Right Stuff. Los Angeles Times Breathtaking ... epic ... There are images and ideas in The Right Stuff that glisten like a rocket screaming to the heavens. Biography Tom Wolfe's high-wire act of language has provided a sort of cultural funhouse mirror ever since he started publishing in the mid-1960s, first as a journalist and later as the acclaimed author of novels The Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man in Full. Wolfe occasionally raises hackles, and he always provokes a response.
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