The Kandy-kolored Tangerine-flake Streamline Baby (Picador Books)

by TomWolfe (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1981

  $3.42

  This collection of essays by Tom Wolfe recalls some of the seminal figures of the early 1960s - including the Cassius Clay-era Muhammad Ali and the Beatles - as well as focusing on New York and its denizens' endless combat for social status.

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $7.24

  In this, his first book and one of the landmarks of the New Journalism, Tom Wolfe managed to look at the American scene of the early 1960s afresh and to zero in on the more exotic forms of status-seeking then in vogue from New York to Los Angeles. In the dances, bouffant hairdos, stock-car racing and rock concerts, Wolfe found a unique American energy, and the incandescent style that produced The Right Stuff and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is already in evidence. In the title essay - Wolfe's first magazine article - he eulogizes the flamboyant 'kustomized kars' California teens constructed with artistic dedication. And there's more - Phil Spector, Cassius Clay, Las Vegas, the Nanny Mafia, Why Doormen hate Volkswagens. Classic Wolfe!