Description
| Product ID: | 9781784873721 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby |
| Authors: | Author: Tom Wolfe |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Tom Wolfe's debut collection of essays - a brilliant, form-bending dive into the future of America as it careened through the 1960s In 1965, Tom Wolfe dropped like a bomb onto the American literary scene with his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, an incandescent panorama of American counter-culture, its dances, bouffant hairdos, customised cars and rock concerts. Capturing the energy of the age in its portraits of Phil Spector, Cassius Clay, Las Vegas and the Nanny Mafia – as well as asking, why do doormen hate Volkswagens? – Wolfe’s flamboyant essay collection remains one of the great, revolutionary landmarks of modern non-fiction. 'Journalism, it is said, is the first draft of history. Nobody exemplifies the dictum better than Wolfe, the cultural observer and social critic par excellence' Daily Telegraph Tom Wolfe''s debut collection of essays - a brilliant, form-bending dive into the future of America as it careened through the 1960s |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-05-31 |