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The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
"Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed Master of the Universe . He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy ...Show more
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe
$6.22 AUD
Category: Classics
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
$10.00 AUD
Category: REM Science | Reading Level: very good
The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. "A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theory of evolution." (Dwight Garner, New York Times) Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us o ...Show more
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
"What is it, I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan, or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? I decided on the simplest approach possible. would ask a few of the astronauts and find out- The men had it. Yeager. Co ...Show more
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