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Tom Wolfe

    2 maart 1930 – 14 mei 2018

    Tom Wolfe, een van de oprichters van de New Journalism-beweging, dook in de innerlijke werking van de geest en onderzocht de onbewuste beslissingen die het menselijk leven vormgeven. Zijn kenmerkende stijl, gekenmerkt door vrije associatie en onomatopee, werd een kenmerk van het genre. Wolfe's aandacht voor de excentriciteiten van menselijk gedrag en taal, en voor kwesties van sociale status, wordt beschouwd als ongeëvenaard in de Amerikaanse literaire canon. Hij wordt ook erkend voor het populariseren van de term "fiction-absolute".

    Tom Wolfe
    Themes and Movements: Pop
    The Right Stuff
    Oh no, Joe!
    Remembering Jack
    Reporting
    Het vreugdevuur der ijdelheden
    • Het vreugdevuur der ijdelheden

      • 555bladzijden
      • 20 uur lezen

      Een rijke effectenhandelaar in New York ziet zijn wereld in elkaar storten nadat hij is doorgereden na een verkeersongeluk waarvan een zwarte jongen het slachtoffer werd.

      Het vreugdevuur der ijdelheden
      4,1
    • Reporting

      The Rolling Stone Style

      • 437bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen
      Reporting
      4,8
    • Remembering Jack

      Intimate and Unseen Photographs of the Kennedys

      • 432bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen

      A stirring collection of never-before-seen photographs of the Kennedy family presented in this seminal work by JFK's personal photographer, Jacques Lowe.

      Remembering Jack
      4,4
    • Oh no, Joe!

      • 30bladzijden
      • 2 uur lezen

      A smooth-sailing bike trip to the store is abruptly stopped in its tracks. A bewildering situation requires swift investigation. What a predicament! It's not all fun and games, as one determined youngster with an uncalculated plan, attempts to match wits with a four-legged culprit named Joe. Oh no, Joe! is a fast-paced and fun time, read in rhyme. A celebration of unconditional love between a boy and his dog... because kind little people grow up to be kind big people.

      Oh no, Joe!
      5,0
    • The first Americans in space--Yeager, Conrad, Grissom, and Glenn--battle the Russians for control of the heavens and put their lives on the line to demonstrate a quality beyond courage, in this classic by Wolfe.

      The Right Stuff
      4,3
    • Themes and Movements: Pop

      • 304bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen

      Exploring the evolution of Pop culture from the late 1950s to the late 1960s, this comprehensive survey examines its impact on art, film, photography, and architecture, highlighting the interplay between mass production and mass media. Unlike other works that focus solely on Pop art, it offers a holistic view of the movement's influence across America, Britain, and Europe, showcasing its diverse manifestations and cultural significance during this transformative era.

      Themes and Movements: Pop
      4,0
    • New Journalism

      • 432bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen

      With an anthology edited by Tom Wolfe and E. W. Johnson

      New Journalism
      4,2
    • The Sixties

      The Art, Politics, and Media of Our Most Explosive Decade

      • 527bladzijden
      • 19 uur lezen

      Gathers essays written during the sixties by such people as Norman Mailer, Marshall McLuhan, Tom Wolfe, Eldridge Cleaver, and others about the changes in art, politics, and the media during that decade

      The Sixties
      4,0
    • The Candlelit Home

      Decorating with Candles Year-Round

      • 160bladzijden
      • 6 uur lezen

      Celebrating the candle as a home decorating item, the authors present more than a hundred well-illustrated ideas and settings designed to help readers choose and place candles for maximum effect.

      The Candlelit Home
      4,0
    • The purple decades

      • 416bladzijden
      • 15 uur lezen

      In the 1960s and the 1970s Tom Wolfe rose to fame as a chronicler of the gaudiest period in American history. It began at a hot-rod custom-car show where he marvelled at the little nest of pink angora angel's-hair used for the purpose of glamorous display. It grew - with his fascination for the Las Vegas-style neon-sculpture boom and its electro-pastel surge through the suburbs - into the kandy-kolored tangerine - flake streamline baby and the new journalism was born.

      The purple decades
      3,9