A Man in Full : A Novel
Tom Wolfe / Mass Market Paperback / Published November 1999
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"A masterpiece." --The Wall Street Journal "Superior...utterly engrossing." --USA Today "The novel contains passages as powerful and as beautiful as anything written--not merely by contemporary American novelists but by any American novelist....The book is as funny as anything Wolfe has ever written; at the same time it is also deeply, strangely affecting." --The New York Times Book Review "Wolfe is a peerless observer, a fearless satirist, a genius in full." --People
The Painted Word
Tom Wolfe / Paperback / Published November 1999
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In 1975, after having put radical chic and '60s counterculture to the satirical torch, Tom Wolfe turned his attention to the contemporary art world. The patron saint (and resident imp) of New Journalism couldn't have asked for a better subject. Here was a hotbed of pretension, nitwit theorizing, social climbing, and money, money, money--all Wolfe had to do was sharpen his tools and get to work. He did! Much of The Painted Word is a superb burlesque on that modern mating ritual whereby artists get to despise their middle-class audience and accommodate it at the same time. The painter, Wolfe wri...
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid TestTom Wolfe / Paperback / Published November 1999
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They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. But, fortunately, Tom Wolfe was there, notebook in hand, politely declining LSD while Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters fomented revolution, turning America on to a dangerously playful way of thinking as their Day-Glo conveyance, Further, made the most influential bus ride since Rosa Parks's. By taking On the Road's hero Neal Cassady as his driver on the cross-country revival tour and drawing on his own training as a magician, Kesey made Further into a bully pulpit, and linked the beat epoch with hippiedom. Paul McCartney's Many Years from...
From Bauhaus to Our HouseTom Wolfe / Paperback / Published November 1999
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Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak CatchersTom Wolfe / Paperback / Published November 1999
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The Pump House GangTom Wolfe / Paperback / Published November 1999
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In Our TimeTom Wolfe / Paperback / Published November 1999
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Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine : And Other Stories, Sketches, and EssaysTom Wolfe / Paperback / Published November 1999
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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline BabyTom Wolfe / Paperback / Published November 1999
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The "streamline baby" in Tom Wolfe's 1965 debut book is a hot rod, but the car's candy colors and wild lines can't match the prose style Wolfe devised to describe them. The title essay--Wolfe's first magazine article--launched the New Journalism, partly because its original title was "There Goes (Varoom! Varoom!) That Kandy-Kolored (Thphhhhhh!) Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (Rahghhh!) Around the Bend (Brummmmmmmmmmmmmmm)..." His voice was more shocking than any subculture he uncovered. Until Wolfe (Ph.D., Yale), nobody struck gold by applying Ph.D.-speak to lowbrow subjects. Kurt Vonnegut fa...
Dementi Wayne, et al / Hardcover / Published October 1999
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Visit this pictorial celebration if you want to see lots of reasons why Richmond, Virginia is the greatest city, in the greatest state, in the greatest nation, in the world ! Three chapters of Then and Now photos are combined with two chapters of Moments and Memories to enable the reader to delight in Richmond's journey through the 20th Century!
Tom Wolfe / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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Tom Wolfe / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. But, fortunately, Tom Wolfe was there, notebook in hand, politely declining LSD while Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters fomented revolution, turning America on to a dangerously playful way of thinking as their Day-Glo conveyance, Further, made the most influential bus ride since Rosa Parks's. By taking On the Road's hero Neal Cassady as his driver on the cross-country revival tour and drawing on his own training as a magician, Kesey made Further into a bully pulpit, and linked the beat epoch with hippiedom. Paul McCartney's Many Years from...
Tom Wolfe / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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After Tom Wolfe defined the '60s in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and the cultural U-turn at the turn of the '80s in The Right Stuff, nobody thought he could ever top himself again. In 1987, when The Bonfire of the Vanities arrived, the literati called Wolfe an "aging enfant terrible."
Tom Wolfe / Audio Cassette / Published February 1999
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In 1975, after having put radical chic and '60s counterculture to the satirical torch, Tom Wolfe turned his attention to the contemporary art world. The patron saint (and resident imp) of New Journalism couldn't have asked for a better subject. Here was a hotbed of pretension, nitwit theorizing, social climbing, and money, money, money--all Wolfe had to do was sharpen his tools and get to work. He did! Much of The Painted Word is a superb burlesque on that modern mating ritual whereby artists get to despise their middle-class audience and accommodate it at the same time. The painter, Wolfe wri...
Tom Wolfe / Hardcover / Published December 1998
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Ever since he published his classic 1972 essay "Why They Aren't Writing the Great American Novel Anymore," Tom Wolfe has made his fictional preferences loud and clear. For New Journalism's poster boy, minimalism is a wash, not to mention a failure of nerve. The real mission of the American writer is to produce fat novels of social observation--the sort of thing Balzac would be dishing up if he had made it into the Viagra era. Wolfe's manifesto would have had a hubristic ring if he hadn't actually delivered the goods in 1987 with The Bonfire of the Vanities. Now, more than a decade later, he's ...
Tom Wolfe, Molly Higgins / Paperback / Published December 1998
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A Man in Full [ABRIDGED]Tom Wolfe, David Ogden Stiers (Performer) / Audio Cassette / Published December 1998
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Choosing David Ogden Stiers (M*A*S*H, The Accidental Tourist) to narrate this sprawling tale of contemporary American society was an act of inspired audio casting. The familiar, snobbish qualities of his warm yet condescending voice perfectly match author Tom Wolfe's own carefully sculpted persona of haughty disdain and color the recording with an interesting sense of authenticity. Without indulging in overwrought characterizations, Stiers manages to create enough distinction between players to keep this sweeping epic coherent. There are moments that find him overreaching, but when voicing a n...
A Man in Full [ABRIDGED]
Tom Wolfe, David Ogden Stiers (Narrator) / Audio CD / Published December 1998
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A decade ago, The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era--and established Tom Wolfe as our prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. Now the master is back with a pitch-perfect coast-to-coast portrait of our wild and wooly, no-holds-barred, multifarious country on the cusp of the millennium.
Tom Wolfe, Douglas Congdon-Martin (Photographer) / Paperback / Published November 1998
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A Man in FullTom Wolfe / Hardcover / Published November 1998
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Ever since he published his classic 1972 essay "Why They Aren't Writing the Great American Novel Anymore," Tom Wolfe has made his fictional preferences loud and clear. For New Journalism's poster boy, minimalism is a wash, not to mention a failure of nerve. The real mission of the American writer is to produce fat novels of social observation--the sort of thing Balzac would be dishing up if he had made it into the Viagra era. Wolfe's manifesto would have had a hubristic ring if he hadn't actually delivered the goods in 1987 with The Bonfire of the Vanities. Now, more than a decade later, he's ...
Tom Wolfe / Paperback / Published August 1998
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Just when it seems that Tom could not possibly have any more Santa patterns, here are 75 never before seen designs. They reflect Tom's unquenchable creativity, his boundless sense of humor, and his keen eye for caricature. Each pattern is clearly drawn and reproduced at full size. A color gallery is included on the back of the book to use as a paint reference.
Tom Wolfe, Douglas Congdon-Martin (Photographer) / Paperback / Published June 1998
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86 Cane Patterns : For the Woodcarver (Schiffer Book for Woodcarvers)Tom Wolfe / Paperback / Published October 1997
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Forever fascinated by canes, the author has always collected them-he even has his grandma's and grandpa's walking sticks. And, as a professional woodcarver, he knows there's a good market for them.
Tom Wolfe, John MacDonald (Reader) / Audio Cassette / Published August 1997
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After Tom Wolfe defined the '60s in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and the cultural U-turn at the turn of the '80s in The Right Stuff, nobody thought he could ever top himself again. In 1987, when The Bonfire of the Vanities arrived, the literati called Wolfe an "aging enfant terrible."
Ambush at Fort BraggTom Wolfe, Edward Norton (Reader) / Audio Cassette / Published August 1997
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In Tom Wolfe's audio-only Ambush at Fort Bragg, no one escapes the author's satiric barbs. The doughy, rumpled network producer of a hard-hitting 60 Minutes-style TV show dreams of fame, while the limelight always shines instead on the tough-as-nails blonde investigative reporter in the perfect silk blouse with every hair always in place. The TV team, in their zeal to get the story, entrap a trio of skinhead gaybashers by having an exotic dancer (with the pitch-perfect name Lola Thong) lure them into a trailer, where hidden TV cameras capture their unwitting confessions. As usual, Wolfe makes ...
Ambush at Fort BraggTom Wolfe, Edward Norton (Narrator) / Audio CD / Published August 1997
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He's been called "the inventor of the New Journalism -- and possessor of the age's most distinctive prose style." Now in this original novella, published to critical acclaim in Rolling Stone magazine, Tom Wolfe, author of The Bonfire of the Vanities, turns his penetrating eye and devastating wit on the world of TV news...
Power Carving Santas With Tom Wolfe (Schiffer Book for Woodcarvers)Tom Wolfe, Jeffrey B. Snyder (Photographer) / Paperback / Published June 1997
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After the big Christmas flight, while elves are busy updating the naughty and nice list or planning next year's product lines, what does Santa do with his spare time? Tom Wolfe has come up with a variety of pastimes the jolly old elf might pick up on his days off. Some of Santa's activities have been set into motion, combining Santa and a whirligig. Over 260 color photographs and easy to follow instructions take the carver through all the necessary steps to carve a Santa you can be proud of.
Painted WordTom Wolfe / Mass Market Paperback / Published June 1997
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In 1975, after having put radical chic and '60s counterculture to the satirical torch, Tom Wolfe turned his attention to the contemporary art world. The patron saint (and resident imp) of New Journalism couldn't have asked for a better subject. Here was a hotbed of pretension, nitwit theorizing, social climbing, and money, money, money--all Wolfe had to do was sharpen his tools and get to work. He did! Much of The Painted Word is a superb burlesque on that modern mating ritual whereby artists get to despise their middle-class audience and accommodate it at the same time. The painter, Wolfe wri...
Tom Wolfe / Paperback / Published December 1996
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In his long and creative career as a woodcarver, Tom Wolfe has created literally thousands of patterns. Many of them have appeared in his previous books, but many more have not.
Tom Wolfe, Jeffrey B. Snyder (Photographer) / Paperback / Published October 1996
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House spirits are magical creatures who watch over homes and families. They come in all manner of shapes and sizes. With a keen eye, house spirits can be found almost anywhere in the wood and timbers throughout the home. Tom Wolfe shows you how to coax them out of their hiding places with power tools. Five patterns are included. Tom provides step-by-step instructions with over 230 color photographs.