Tom Wolfe Knihy

When the future began... The men had it. Yeager. Conrad. Grissom. Glenn. Heroes...the first Americans in space...battling the Russians for control of the heavens...putting their lives on the line. The women had it. While Mr. Wonderful was aloft, it tore your heart out that the Hero's Wife, down on the ground, had to perform with the whole world watching...the TV Press Conference: "What's in your heart? Do you feel with him while he's in orbit?" The Right Stuff. It's the quality beyond bravery, beyond courage. It's men like Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of all and the fastest man on earth. Pete Conrad, who almost laughed himself out of the running. Gus Grissom, who almost lost it when his capsule sank. John Glenn, the only space traveler whose apple-pie image wasn't a lie.

Román se stal literární senzací roku 1988. Hlavní téma je tradiční: soudní případ běloch versus černoch.

Mistr se vrací a předkládá nám dokonalý portrét divoké, drsné a ničím nespoutané země plné rozmanitosti. Místem, kde se vše odehrává, je Atlanta ve státě Georgia, kde žijí vedle sebe černoši a běloši. Utrpení Charlieho Crokera a způsob, jakým se ho zbavil, je nezapomenutelným rozuzlením napjatě očekávaného, ironického a výmluvného románu.

Pohodová kniha o pohodových lidech. Veselí šprýmaři (Merry Pranksters) se vydávají v pomalovaném autobusu na cestu po USA. Kolem sebe šíří pozdvižení, barvy, humor, hlasitou hudbu a hlavně LSD. Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady a další jako předzvěst nastupující hip generace. Základní kniha hippies a kronika vpádu LSD do Ameriky.

With an anthology edited by Tom Wolfe and E. W. Johnson

Looking for new forms of status and power, the author travels from La Jolla to London in search of the 1960s subculture's wildest heroes. Reprint.

In the 1960s and the 1970s Tom Wolfe rose to fame as a chronicler of the gaudiest period in American history. It began at a hot-rod custom-car show where he marvelled at the little nest of pink angora angel's-hair used for the purpose of glamorous display. It grew - with his fascination for the Las Vegas-style neon-sculpture boom and its electro-pastel surge through the suburbs - into the kandy-kolored tangerine - flake streamline baby and the new journalism was born.

"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 through its transformations to Pop, Op, Minimal, and Conceptual. The Painted Word is Tom Wolfe "at his most clever, amusing, and irreverent" (San Francisco Chronicle).

"When are the 1970's going to begin?" ran the joke during the l976 presidential bid. In these stories and essays Wolfe meets the question head-on -- even providing the label "The Me Decade".