Tom Wolfes debut collection of essays a brilliant, formbending dive into the future of America as it careened through the 1960s In 1965, Tom Wolfe dropped like a bomb onto the American literary scene with his first book, The KandyKolored TangerineFlake Streamline Baby, an incandescent panorama of American counterculture, its dances, bouffant hairdos, customised cars and rock concerts. Capturing the energy of the age in its portraits of Phil Spector, Cassius Clay, Las Vegas and the Nanny Mafia as well as asking, why do doormen hate Volkswagens? Wolfes flamboyant essay collection remains one of the great, revolutionary landmarks of modern nonfiction.Journalism, it is said, is the first draft of history. Nobody exemplifies the dictum better than Wolfe, the cultural observer and social critic par excellence Daily Telegraph

Binding: Paperback;368 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: FA; Weight: 386 g; Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 23

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