WOLFE TOM

Η πυρά της ματαιοδοξίας
Ο Σέρμαν ΜακΚόι είναι νέος, πλούσιος και επιτυχημένος χρηματιστής στη Γουόλ Στριτ. Απόφοιτος των καλύτερων σχολείων, υπερηφανεύεται για την αριστοκρατική του καταγωγή από τους πρώτους Ολλανδούς αποίκους και νιώθει "Κυρίαρχος του Κόσμου", καθώς κερδίζει ένα εκατομμύριο δολάρια το χρόνο από πωλήσεις ομολόγων. Όταν, κατά την επιστροφή του από το αεροδρόμιο όπου πήγε να παραλάβει την ερωμένη του Μαρία με την πολυτελή Μερσέντες του, βγαίνει κατά λάθος από τον αυτοκινητόδρομο στο Μπρονξ και εμπλέκεται σε ατύχημα με θύμα έναν νεαρό μαύρο, αρχίζει...
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(P/B) THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES
Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy close in on him, determined to bring him down. The Bonfire of the Vanities is a caustic satire on the money-feverish Eighties. This exuberant novel cemented Wolfe's reputation as the foremost chronicler of his age. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST
"I looked around and people's faces were distorted...lights were flashing everywhere...the screen at the end of the room had three or four different films on it at once, and the strobe light was flashing faster than it had been...the band was playing but I couldn't hear the music...people were dancing...someone came up to me and I shut my eyes and with a machine he projected images on the back of my eye-lids...I sought out a person I trusted and he laughed and told me that the Kool-Aid had been spiked and that I was beginning my first LSD ...
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(P/B) THE NEW JOURNALISM
'The hell with it... let chaos reign... louder music, more wine... All the old traditions are exhausted and no new one is yet established. All bets are off! The odds are cancelled! It's anybody's ballgame... ' Tom Wolfe introduces and exults in his generation's journalistic talent: Truman Capote inside the mind of a psychotic killer Hunter S. Thompson skunk drunk at the Kentucky Derby Michael Herr dispatching reality from the Vietnam killing fields Rex Reed giving the star treatment to the ageing Ava Gardner As well as Norman Mailer Joe ...
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(P/B) I AM CHARLOTTE SIMMONS
Dupont University - the Olympian halls of learning 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 Sparta, North Carolina, who has come here on a full scholarship. But Charlotte soon learns that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time. As Charlotte encounters Dupont's elite - her roommate, Beverly, a fleshy, privileged Brahmin in lusty pur...
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(P/B) THE KANDY-KOLORED TANGERINE-FLAKE STREAMLINE BABY
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 h...
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(P/B) A MAN IN FULL
Charlie Croker, once a fabled college football star, is now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real estate entrepreneur-turned conglomerate king. His expansionist ambitions and outsize ego have at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 28,000 acre quail shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife and a half-empty downtown tower with a staggering load of debt. Wolfe shows us contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most admired novelist. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) BACK TO BLOOD
As the police boat speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay, the scene is set for Officer Nestor Camacho's great moment of heroism. Except that in this feverous melting pot of a city, Nestor's one act of heroism can be seen as an utter betrayal of his Cuban roots. As Nestor's world disintegrates - his family disowns him, he can't get a Cuban coffee without ugly stares, and his girlfriend Magdalena leaves him for her sex-addiction psychiatrist boss - his quest to right the wrongs brings him into contact with the full panorama of modern Miami. The...
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(P/B) THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH
Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey through language. The Kingdom of Speech is a 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, lon...
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(P/B) THE RIGHT STUFF
What is it, I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan, or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? I decided on the simplest approach possible. I would ask a few of the astronauts and find out... 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, d...
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(P/B) HOOKING UP
In Hooking Up Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, observing the 'lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000' - everything from teenage sexual manners to how genetics and neuroscience are changing the way we regard ourselves. Also included in this collection are some of his most classic and enduring pieces of journalism, and 'Ambush art at Fort Bragg', his fiercely satirical novella about sting TV. Funny, often savagely so, hard-hitting and wise, Wolfe remains a unique master-chronicler of Amer...
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ΕΝΑΣ ΑΝΤΡΑΣ ΜΕ ΤΑ ΟΛΑ ΤΟΥ (ΠΡΩΤΟΣ ΤΟΜΟΣ)
Ο χώρος αυτού του μυθιστορήματος είναι η Ατλάντα της Τζόρτζια, μια φυλετικά ανομοιογενής πόλη γεμάτη νεόπλουτους πανούργους πολιτικούς. Πρωταγωνιστής ο Τσαρλς Κρόκερ, παλιός αστέρας του ράγκμπι και σήμερα μεσόκοπος μεγιστάνας του επιχειρηματικού κόσμου της Ατλάντα που έχει φυτεία 116.000 στρεμμάτων για να κυνηγάει ορτύκια, μια νεαρή και απαιτητική δεύτερη σύζυγο κι ένα μισοάδειο συγκρότημα γραφείων με αβάσταχτο φορτίο από χρέη. Συμπρωταγωνιστούν: ένας νεαρός ιδεαλιστής που χάνει την δουλειά του και βρίσκεται στη δίνη του αμερικάνικου νομ...
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ΕΝΑΣ ΑΝΤΡΑΣ ΜΕ ΤΑ ΟΛΑ ΤΟΥ (ΔΕΥΤΕΡΟΣ ΤΟΜΟΣ)
Ο χώρος αυτού του μυθιστορήματος είναι η Ατλάντα της Τζόρτζια, μια φυλετικά ανομοιογενής πόλη γεμάτη νεόπλουτους πανούργους πολιτικούς. Πρωταγωνιστής ο Τσαρλς Κρόκερ, παλιός αστέρας του ράγκμπι και σήμερα μεσόκοπος μεγιστάνας του επιχειρηματικού κόσμου της Ατλάντα που έχει φυτεία 116.000 στρεμμάτων για να κυνηγάει ορτύκια, μια νεαρή και απαιτητική δεύτερη σύζυγο κι ένα μισοάδειο συγκρότημα γραφείων με αβάσταχτο φορτίο από χρέη. Συμπρωταγωνιστούν: ένας νεαρός ιδεαλιστής που χάνει την δουλειά του και βρίσκεται στη δίνη του αμερικάνικου νομ...
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(P/B) THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES
One night in the Bronx a millionaire, Sherman McCoy, and his mistress have an accident. The next day a young Black is in hospital in a coma as McCoy heads for disaster. His humiliation is at the centre of a satire on the decaying class, racial and political structure of New York in the 1980s....
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I AM CHARLOTTE SIMMONS
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ΣΤΟ ΒΩΜΟ ΤΗΣ ΜΑΤΑΙΟΔΟΞΙΑΣ
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