The Pump House Gang by Wolfe, Tom
The Pump House Gang by Wolfe, Tom

The Pump House Gang

A sprawling collection of essays about the subcultures of the 1960s by Tom Wolfe, the revolutionary journalist...
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Author: Tom Wolfe
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Language: English
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The Pump House Gang by Wolfe, Tom

The Pump House Gang

$38.43
The Pump House Gang by Wolfe, Tom

The Pump House Gang

$38.43
Author: Tom Wolfe
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A sprawling collection of essays about the subcultures of the 1960s by Tom Wolfe, the revolutionary journalist and novelist

When Tom Wolfe smashed his way onto the literary scene in 1965 with The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, he transformed reporting in American popular culture. For his next project, Wolfe traveled from La Jolla to London in search of new lifestyles. The result is The Pump House Gang (published simultaneously with The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test in 1968): a collection of essays that chronicles life at the end of the 1960s, written with all the panache and perceptiveness that made Wolfe one of our greatest American journalists.

Running throughout The Pump House Gang is a central theme of Wolfe's writing: status. In pieces about Hugh Hefner, Natalie Wood, and a gang of affluent teenage surfers, among others, Wolfe discusses the 1960s phenomenon of retreating from conventional social hierarchies, which he calls "starting your own league." Dancers, motorcyclists, lumpen-dandies, and stay-at-homes--everybody's doing it. Except for die-hards in the crumbling old social worlds of New York and London, where the confusion is so great that nobody can tell whether this is really the path to the top they've taken or just the service elevator.

Dazzlingly brilliant as a stylist, daringly provocative as a commentator, and always entertaining, in The Pump House Gang, Wolfe is thoroughly, completely himself.

Author: Tom Wolfe
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 11/05/2024
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.39w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9781250338341

About the Author
Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such classics as The Right Stuff and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, along with several novels including The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. His numerous honors include the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize, the Washington Irving Medal, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation Medal. He lived in New York City.
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