Tom Wolfe, l'un des fondateurs du mouvement du Nouveau Journalisme, s'est plongé dans le fonctionnement interne de l'esprit, explorant les décisions inconscientes qui façonnent les vies humaines. Son style distinctif, marqué par le libre arbitre et l'onomatopée, est devenu une marque de fabrique du genre. L'attention de Wolfe portée aux excentricités du comportement et du langage humains, ainsi qu'aux questions de statut social, est considérée comme inégalée dans le canon littéraire américain. Il est également reconnu pour avoir popularisé le terme « fiction-absolute ».
A smooth-sailing bike trip to the store is abruptly stopped in its tracks. A bewildering situation requires swift investigation. What a predicament! It's not all fun and games, as one determined youngster with an uncalculated plan, attempts to match wits with a four-legged culprit named Joe. Oh no, Joe! is a fast-paced and fun time, read in rhyme. A celebration of unconditional love between a boy and his dog... because kind little people grow up to be kind big people.
'A great journalist with a whip-like satirical prose style... Wolfe's great gift is to make the heavy seem light and this book is such an entertaining polemic that I read it in a day and immediately wanted to read it again.' - Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech - not evolution - is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in our Kingdom of Speech.
As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne Bay – with officer Nestor Camacho on board – Tom Wolfe is off and running.
A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay-with officer Nestor Camacho on board-Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his Latina nurse by day, loin lock by night-until lately, the love of Nestor's life; a refined, and oh-so-light-skinned young woman from Haiti and her Creole-spouting, black-gang-banger-stylin' little brother; a billionaire porn addict, crack dealers in the 'hoods, "de-skilled" conceptual artists at the Miami Art Basel Fair, "spectators" at the annual Biscayne Bay regatta looking only for that night's orgy, yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers at an "Active Adult" condo, and a nest of shady Russians. Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous bestselling novels, BACK TO BLOOD is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times
Exploring the early 1960s American scene, this book highlights status-seeking trends from New York to Los Angeles. It captures the vibrant energy of dances, bouffant hairstyles, stock-car racing, and rock concerts, celebrating the artistic dedication behind California teens' flamboyant 'kustomized kars.'
À Fort Bragg, en Caroline du Nord, grande base d'entraînement militaire, un jeune soldat homosexuel a été battu à mort dans les toilettes d'un bar topless et les trois rangers coupables de l'agression sont restés impunis. Jusqu'à ce qu'entre en jeu l'obstiné Irv Durtscher, producteur d'une émission de télévision à succès. Son embuscade va mobiliser caméras cachées, micros espions et strip-teaseuse thaïlandaise sur les lieux du crime... Dans ce court roman à la fois truculent et ciselé au vitriol, c'est tout l'univers de notre " société du spectacle " qui se trouve férocement démonté et mis en pièces par Tom Wolfe.
Первая книга классика американской литературы Тома Вулфа, своего рода "зернышко", из которого впоследствии выросли такие шедевры документалистики, как "Электропрохладительный кислотный тест", "Новая журналистика" и "Битва за космос". Название всему сборнику дал одноименный очерк, посвященный показу последних моделей автомашин, модернизированных и оформленных калифорнийскими подростками. Автомобиль, в отличие от, например, мотоцикла или усилителя, "символизирующих контркультуру", рассматривается Вулфом как "символ традиционного американского сознания".
Tom Wolfe, the master social novelist of our time, the spot-on chronicler of all things contemporary and cultural, presents a sensational new novel about life, love, and learning--or the lack of it--amid today's American colleges. Our story unfolds at fictional Dupont University: those Olympian halls of scholarship housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition . . . Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time. As Charlotte encounters the paragons of Dupont's privileged elite--her roommate, Beverly, a Groton-educated Brahmin in lusty pursuit of lacrosse players; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont's godlike basketball team, whose position is threatened by a hotshot black freshman from the projects; the Young Turk of Saint Ray fraternity, Hoyt Thorpe, whose heady sense of entitlement and social domination is clinched by his accidental brawl with a bodyguard for the governor of California; and Adam Geller, one of the Millennial Mutants who run the university's "independent" newspaper and who consider themselves the last bastion of intellectual endeavor on the sex-crazed, jock-obsessed campus--she is seduced by the heady glamour of acceptance, betraying both her values and upbringing before she grasps the power of being different--and the exotic allure of her own innocence. With his trademark satirical wit and famously sharp eye for telling detail, Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons draws on extensive observations at campuses across the country to immortalize the early-21st-century college-going experience.
La Dupont University, con le sue architetture gotiche e il suo parco curato, è l'Olimpo della cultura universitaria americana, il luogo che raccoglie la migliore gioventù statunitense. O almeno così appare agli occhi di Charlotte Simmons, bella e intelligente matricola giunta con una borsa di studio dalle montagne del North Carolina. E qui, con sua grande sorpresa, viene subito adottata dai principali esponenti dell'élite studentesca. Entrare nelle loro grazie è per la ragazza straordinario, qualcosa che può farle perdere la testa e i valori con cui è cresciuta. Prima di arrivare a capire la grandezza del suo essere diversa.
