The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 368
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9781784873721
- Utgivelsesår: 2018
- Bidragsyter: Wolfe, Tom
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