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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Author: Tom Wolfe
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
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About This Book
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“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
Tom Wolfe raised the banner for his high-octane brand of New Journalism with The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, his first book of essays, which collects stories from corners of 1960s America that few had described before. With a thrilling flair for detail, Wolfe creates an indelible portrait of the era—from the burgeoning ersatz glamor of Las Vegas, to the hot-rodding world of car customizers, to a close-up look at the working lives of New York City doormen.
These essays are a testament to Wolfe’s unparalleled ability to capture the zeitgeist on the page, bringing it to life with colorful and unusual characters and an inimitable ear for a new kind of American idiom. The force and depth of his writing endures even more than half a century after his debut, reaffirming, yet again, his role as a foundational figure in the development of a truly American school of language and journalism.
Imprint Publisher
Picador
ISBN
9781250321725
In The News
“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