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Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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, an ambitious young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; a psychiatrist who spe ...Show more
I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
America's 'peerless observer [and] fearless satirist' takes on the university - from jocks to mutants, dormcest to tailgating - plus race, class, sex, and basketball. Dupont University - the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns su ...Show more
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Tom Wolfe's genre-defining ride through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversaryWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JARVIS COCKERIn the summer of 1964, author Ken Kesey and his Merry Band of Pranksters set out on a trip like no other. Blazing across America in thei ...Show more
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Tom Wolfe's debut collection of essays - a brilliant, form-bending dive into the future of America as it careenedthrough 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 A ...Show more
The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
"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, ta ...Show more
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