Tom Wolfe, jeden zo zakladateľov hnutia Novinárskeho realizmu 60. a 70. rokov, sa ponoril do vnútorného fungovania mysle a skúmal nevedomé rozhodnutia, ktoré formujú ľudské životy. Jeho štýl, charakterizovaný voľnými asociáciami a onomatopojmiou, sa stal ochrannou známkou Novinárskeho realizmu. Wolfe sa zameral na zvláštnosti ľudského správania a jazyka a na otázky sociálneho postavenia, čím zanechal neporovnateľný odkaz v americkom literárnom kánone. Je tiež známy ako popularizátor termínu "fiction-absolute".
Širokouhlý panoramatický záber zo života súčasného New Yorku, onoho Babylonu našich čias. Dráma pohnutých ľudských osudov, ktorá postupne prechádza do frašky. Tom Wolfe si vie podmaniť čitateľa... je vynikajúcim rozprávačom a vie rozosmiať. Vybraný faktografický materiál transponoval do roviny typizácie a umeleckého zovšeobecnenia. Jeho rozprávanie sa však odvíja v takom tempe, že čitateľ má chvíľami pocit, akoby padal z výšky.
The first Americans in space--Yeager, Conrad, Grissom, and Glenn--battle the Russians for control of the heavens and put their lives on the line to demonstrate a quality beyond courage, in this classic by Wolfe.
A decade after defining an era with his previous work, Tom Wolfe returns with a masterful portrayal of America on the brink of the millennium. Set in Atlanta, Georgia—a racially diverse boomtown filled with new wealth and savvy politicians—the narrative follows Charles Croker, a former college football star turned late-middle-aged business mogul. Croker's inflated ego clashes with reality as he navigates his vast quail-shooting plantation, a demanding young wife, and a struggling office complex burdened with debt. Meanwhile, Conrad Hensley, an idealistic father laid off from Croker Global Foods, finds himself ensnared in the depths of the American legal system. The story escalates when Fareek "the Canon" Fanon, a star running back from Atlanta's slums, is accused of date-raping the daughter of a prominent white figure. Upscale black lawyer Roger White II is called to defend Fanon, tasked with maintaining the city's fragile racial equilibrium. Wolfe intricately weaves together themes of illegal immigration, life behind bars, and shady real estate dealings, delivering a vivid snapshot of contemporary America. The resolution of Charlie Croker's challenges culminates in a memorable conclusion, marking this as one of Wolfe's most significant and entertaining works to date.
One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they launched out on the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all the while introducing acid (then legal) to hundreds of like-minded folks, staging impromptu jam sessions, dodging the Feds, and meeting some of the most revolutionary figures of the day.
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.
The author derails the great American myth of modern art in a scathing, witty, uncompromising critique of American art from the 1950s through the 1970s. Reprint.
"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".
