The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

Tom Wolfe
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Publication Date: November 24th, 2009
Publisher:
Picador
ISBN:
9780312429126
Pages:
368
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Description

"An excellent book by a genius," said Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this now classic exploration of the 1960s from the founder of new journalism.

"This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years from now, when it will bring back, like a falcon in the sky of memory, a whole world that is currently jetting and jazzing its way somewhere or other."--Newsweek

In his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) Wolfe introduces us to the sixties, to extravagant new styles of life that had nothing to do with the "elite" culture of the past.

About the Author

Tom Wolfe (1930–2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of contemporary classics like The Right Stuff and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. As a reporter, he wrote articles for The Washington Post, the New York Herald Tribune, Esquire, and New York Magazine, and is credited with coining the term, “The Me Decade.” Among his many honors, Tom was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lived in New York City.

Praise for The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

“Might well be required reading in courses with names like American studies.” —Time Magazine

“I'm always rereading Tom Wolfe's The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.” —David Gates

“Tom Wolfe is a terrific writer.” —The Washington Monthly

“Wolfe can do things with words and settings that few writers are capable of matching.” —Tom Walker, The Denver Post

“The man's done the impossible. He--Yes!--understands America!” —Houston Chronicle

“His eye and ear for detailed observation are incomparable; and observation is to the satirist what bullets are to a gun.” —The Boston Sunday Globe